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.
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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.
Larnaca Salt Lake – 1140 Greater Flamingo, 143 Common Shelduck, 7 Pied Avocet, 3 Kentish Plover, 4 Ringed Plover, 33 Dunlin, 84 Little Stint, 64 Slender billed Gull, 2 Mediterranean Gull, Little Gull, Common Gull, 25 Armenian Gull, 7 Caspian Gull, 3 Heuglin’s Gull & Penduline Tit.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 39 Red crested Pochard, 8 Common Pochard, 114 Ferruginous Duck, 70 Black necked Grebe, Eurasian Curlew & Common Greenshank.
Larnaca Airport Pools South – 110 Common Shelduck.
Cape Greco – Asian Desert Warbler.
Paphos Headland – 30+ Eurasian Golden Plover, Ruddy Turnstone, Armenian Gull, Eurasian Tree Sparrow & Desert Finch
Aradippou – 20+ Common Swift.
Agia Varvara – Alpine Swift.
Livadi tou Pashia – 10+ Brambling.
Troodos Botanical Gardens – 19 Eurasian Siskin
Oroklini Marsh – 25 Gadwall, 3 Western Water Rail, 18 Black-winged Stilt, Green Sandpiper, 13 Common swift, Eurasian Reed warbler, 2 Moustached warbler & Reed Bunting.
Cape Greco – Great spotted Cuckoo.
Larnaca Sewage Works – Isabelline Wheatear.
Germasogeia- 5 Eurasian Crag Martin & 30 House Martin.
Mazotos – 3 Sandwich Tern.
Mazotos – 5 Eurasian Stone Curlew.
Avakas Gorge – Wallcreeper
Paphos Headland – Isabelline Wheatear, Eurasian Tree Sparrow & Desert Finch.
Akrotiri Marsh – Ruddy Shelduck, 2 Eurasian Spoonbill, 4 Black-winged Stilt, White throated Kingfisher & Siberian pipit.
Oroklini Marsh – 2 Ruddy Shelduck, 10 Northern Pintail, 2 Western Marsh Harrier, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, 27 Black-winged Stilt & Water Pipit.
Livadi tou Pashia – 3 Mistle Thrush, Eurasian Siskin & 8 Common Crossbill.
Kourio – Isabelline Wheatear.
Mandria – Isabelline Wheatear.
Timi Beach – Great spotted Cuckoo.
Agia Varvara – 2 Cyprus Scops Owl, Finschs Wheatear & Cyprus Warbler.
Akrotiri Marsh – Ruddy Shelduck, 2 Eurasian Spoonbill, Booted Eagle, Hen Harrier, Siberian Pipit & Moustached Warbler.
Orounda – Eurasian Buzzard, Long-legged Buzzard, 2 Green Sandpiper & 3 Woodlark.
Anarita Park – Long legged Buzzard, Great spotted Cuckoo, 9 Woodlark & 40 European Serin.
Agia Varvara – 2 Long legged Buzzard, Eurasian Buzzard, Western Marsh Harrier, Great spotted Cuckoo, 15 Barn Swallow, 3 Crag Martin & 3 House Martin.
Cape Greco – Blue rock Thrush & Masked Shrike.
Agia Varvara – Cyprus Scops Owl
Akrotiri Marsh – Ruddy Shelduck, 4 Black winged Stilt, 2 Spotted Redshank, White throated Kingfisher, 5 Water Pipit, 11 Barn Swallow & 11 House Martin.
Kourion – 2 Griffon Vulture & Blue Rock Thrush.
Kalo Khorio Orinis – Eurasian Hoopoe.
Episkopi – Common Barn Owl, Little Owl & 2 Cyprus Scops Owl.
Kourion – 2 Griffon Vulture & Blue Rock Thrush.
Kalo Khorio Orinis – Eurasian Hoopoe.
Episkopi – Common Barn Owl, Little Owl & 2 Cyprus Scops Owl.
Mia Mia Water Treatment plant – Black Kite, 2 Green Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, 8+ Water Pipit & Eastern Yellow Wagtail.
Kouklia Dam (Famagusta) – 16 White fronted Geese, 84 Eurasian Wigeon, 122 Gadwall, 28 Northern Pintail, 33 Ferruginous Duck, 23 Common Pochard, 562 Greater Flamingo, 6 Black necked Grebe, 10+ Marsh Harrier, Hen Harrier, 35 Eurasian Golden Plover, 30+ Calandra Lark & Barn Swallow.
Clapsides – Pied Kingfisher & Barn Swallow.
Akrotiri Marsh – Bonelli’s Eagle, White throated Kingfisher, Pallid Swift, 3+ Little Swift, 16 House Martin & 4 Barn Swallow.
Akrotiri Gravel Pits – Great spotted Cuckoo
Kalo Chorio Orinis – 2 Cyprus Scops Owl.
Germasogeia – Northern Goshawk, 2 Eurasian Crag Martin & 5 House Martin.
Bishop’s Pool – 2 Humes Warbler.
Germasogeia Dam – Bonelli’s Eagle, Long legged Buzzard, Pied Avocet & 2 Eurasian Crag Martin.
Troodos Botanical Garden – 14 Eurasian Siskin.
Akrotiri Marsh – 35 Gadwall, 2 Wigeon, 12 Common Snipe, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, White throated Kingfisher, 10+ Water Pipit, 8 House Martin, 3 Barn Swallow, 2 Moustached Warbler & Penduline Tit.
Mazotos – 2 Great spotted Cuckoo.
Bishop’s Pool – 5 Ferruginous Duck, Moustached Warbler & 2 Hume’s Warbler.
Cape Pyla – Finsch’s Wheatear.
Freshwater Lake South – White headed Duck.
Akrotiri Marsh – Ruddy shelduck & White throated Kingfisher.
Psematismenos – Cyprus Warbler.
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