Recent sightings
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Recent Sightings
Below are all recent, unconfirmed reports of notable bird sightings from all over Cyprus, sent to us from local and visiting birdwatchers.
Recent sightings are also shared through our Twitter feed here and through our WhatsApp groups: please click here to request to join the Cyprus Bird Sightings group, and here to request to join the Cyprus bird socials group, for bird and conservation related discussions beyond sightings.
For a personalized and expertly guided birdwatching experience, explore our bird tours here.
Are you out birdwatching regularly? Then make your sightings count by sending them to the BirdLife Cyprus Recorder. You can see all the ways you can record your sightings here.
Kouklia Dam (Famagusta) – 7 Black necked Grebe, 6 Great crested Grebe, 8 Black-crowned Night Heron, 20+ Squacco Heron, 4 Eurasian Spoonbill, Great White Egret, 30+ Glossy Ibis, Purple Heron, 19 Great white Pelican, 6 Stone Curlew, 3 Grey Plover, 8 Green Sandpiper, 2 Great spotted Cuckoo, Calandra Lark & Greater Short-toed Lark.
Amiantos – 6 Cyprus Wheatear, Pallid Swift, Red rumped Swallow, Eurasian Crag Martin & 5 Cretzschmar’s Bunting.
Zapalo – 3 Griffon Vulture, 20+ Eleonora’s Falcon, Peregrine Falcon & 45+ Alpine Swift.
Paralimni Lake – 26 Greater Flamingo, 11 Squacco Heron, 9 Little Egret, 16 Glossy Ibis, Ruddy Shelduck, 8 Ferruginous Duck, Red crested Pochard, Garganey, 3 Gadwall, 242 Common Coot, 205 Black winged Stilt, 62 Spur winged Lapwing & 17 Little Tern.
Larnaca Airport Pools South – 32 Greater Flamingo, 16 Black winged Stilt, 5 Kentish Plover & 33 Little Tern including 22 chicks.
Spiros Pool – 77+ Black winged Stilt, Green Sandpiper, 2 Black headed Gull, 4 Little Gull, Audouins Gull, Gull billed Tern, 4 White winged Tern, Whiskered Tern, Little Tern, Pallid Swift & Calandra Lark.
Latchi – 84 Great white Pelican.
Troodos – Eleonora’s Falcon, 2 Woodlark, 10+ Pallid Swift, 4 Cyprus Wheatear, 2 Masked Shrike & 3 Crossbill.
Prodromos Dam – Woodlark, Grey Wagtail & 2 Spotted Flycatcher feeding three recently fledged juveniles.
Troodos Botanical Gardens – 10+ Red rumped Swallow, 6 Eurasian Crag Martin, 6 Cyprus Wheatear, 2 Grey Wagtail, Cyprus Warbler, Masked Shrike & 2 Cretzchmars Bunting.
Kapedes – Agia Varvara (Nicosia) – 5 European Nightjar, Barn Owl, Cyprus Scops Owl & Long-eared Owl.
Paralimni Lake – 20 Glossy Ibis & Common Little Bittern.
Spiros Pool – 30 Greater Flamingo, Peregrine Falcon, 3 Little Gull, 3 Black headed Gull, Whiskered Tern & Little Tern.
Kambi – 5 Common Nightingale, Eurasian Blackbird, 4 Red rumped Swallow, 9 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, 8+ Northern Wren & 10+ European Serin.
Vavatsinia – Eleonora’s Falcon, 6 Cyprus Wheatear, 3 Masked Shrike, 6 Cretzchmars Bunting & 8 Black headed Bunting.
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