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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.
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Mavrokolympos Dam – 30 Glossy Ibis, 6 Green Sandpiper, White winged Tern, 2 Eurasian Hobby, 9 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, Willow Warbler, Cyprus Warbler, 4 Masked Shrike, 5 Red backed Shrike & 16 Cretzchmars Bunting.
Agia Saranta – 7 lesser Whitethroat, 5 Red-backed Shrike, 3 Masked Shrike, 2 Woodchat Shrike, 2 Lesser grey Shrike & Spotted flycatcher.
Larnaca Desalination Plant fields – 6 Collared Pratincole, 30+ Western Yellow Wagtail, Whinchat, 40 Common Swift, 2 Pallid Swift, 2+ Great Reed Warbler & Lesser Grey Shrike.
Bishops Pool – 2 Garganey, 2 Common Teal, Ferruginous Duck, 5 Black-crowned Night Heron, Squacco Heron, 2 Glossy Ibis, Pallid Harrier, 3 Eleonora’s Falcon, 5 Common Hoopoe, 2 European Turtle Dove, Red backed Shrike & Lesser grey Shrike.
Kensington Cliffs – 10 Griffon Vulture & 20+ Eleonora’s Falcon.
Troodos Botanical Garden – Bonelli’s Eagle, Peregrine, 5 Cyprus Wheatear, 3 Eurasian Crag Martin, 10+ Red rumped Swallow, Wood Warbler, 3 Willow Warbler, 2 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, Red backed Shrike & Cretzschmar’s Bunting
Livadi tou Pashia – Collared Flycatcher & Spotted Flycatcher.
Frenaros – 6 Long eared Owl & Lesser grey Shrike.
Cape Kormakitis – 427 Garganey, Common Teal, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Slender-billed Gull, 9 Gull-billed Tern &
3 European Roller.
Agia Eirini Dam – Red-crested Pochard, 5 Common Pochard, 20+ Ferruginous Duck, Great Crested Grebe, 3 Wood Sandpiper, Ruff, 4 White-winged Black Tern, Long-legged Buzzard, 3 European Roller, 3 Masked Shrike, 3 Lesser Grey Shrike & 2 Red-backed Shrike.
Germasogeia – Little Swift & 40+ Pallid Swift.
Spiros Pool – Whimbrel, Ruddy Turnstone, Curlew Sandpiper, Grey Plover, 40+ Little Stint, 50+ Kentish Plover, 16+ Ringed Plover & Dunlin.
Larnaca Desalination Plant fields – 4 Collared Pratincole & Savi’s Warbler.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 5 Red crested Pochard, 2 Garganey, Collared Pratincole, Grey Plover, Little Gull & 3 Gull billed Tern.
Larnaca Desalination Plant fields – 4 Collared Pratincole.
Spiros Pool – Sanderling & Isabelline Wheatear.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 5 Garganey, Red-crested Pochard, 5 Ferruginous Duck, 11 Glossy Ibis, Common Ringed Plover, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 8 Common Sandpiper, Curlew Sandpiper, 20 Ruff, 20 Little Stint, 5 Collared Pratincole, Little Gull, 2 Gull-billed Tern, 5 White-winged Tern
Cape Kormakitis – 3 Scopoli Shearwater, Yelkouan Shearwater, 145 Garganey, 2 Νorthern Shoveler, 8 Little Ringed Plover, Common Ringed Plover, 2 Gull billed Tern, 2 European Nightjar & Common Cuckoo.
Germasogeia – Little Swift & 30+ Pallid Swift.
Germasogeia – 2 Long legged Buzzard, Peregrine, Little Swift, 20+ Pallid Swift, 200+ Common Swift & 51 European Bee eater.
Larnaca Desalination Plant fields – 7 Glossy Ibis, 2 Wood Sandpiper, Temmincks Stint & 2 Collared Pratincole.
Spiros Pool – Grey Plover, 9 Common Ringed Plover, 2 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Ruff, 3 Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Sanderling, Dunlin & 42 Little Stint.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 3 Garganey, 3 Ferruginous Duck, 34 Black-winged Stilt, Little Ringed Plover, 9 Common Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, 19 Ruff, Sanderling, 8 Little Stint, 3 Gull-billed Tern & 2 Slender-billed Gull.
Larnaca Desalination Plant fields – 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Wood Sandpiper, Temmincks Stint, Great Reed Warbler & Lesser Whitethroat.
Spiros Pool – 26 Black winged Stilt, Grey Plover, 3 Common Ringed Plover, Ruddy Turnstone, 3 Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Sanderling, 2 Collared Pratincole, 2 Slender billed Gull, 3 Gull billed Tern & 20+ Western Yellow Wagtail.
Kouklia Dam (Famagusta) – 200+ Garganey, 400+ Glossy Ibis, 150+ Black-crowned Night Heron, 40+ Squacco Heron, 45 Greater Flamingo, 1300+ Black-winged Stilt, 75+ Little Ringed Plover, 50+ Green Sandpiper, 16 Marsh Sandpiper, 320+ Wood Sandpiper, 25 Common Greenshank, 210+ Ruff, Broad-billed Sandpiper, 5 Curlew Sandpiper, 7 Temminck’s Stint, 340+ Little Stint, 52 Collared Pratincole, 11 Gull-billed Tern, 20+ Whiskered Tern, 65+ White-winged Tern, 7 Slender-billed Gull, Armenian Gull, 120+ Western Yellow Wagtail & 3 Savi’s Warbler.
Bishops Pool – 3 Black-crowned Night Heron, 3 Purple Heron, Squacco Heron, Glossy Ibis, 4 Ferruginous Duck, Green Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Eleonora’s Falcon, 10+ European Turtle Dove, 11 Red rumped Swallow, Sedge Warbler & 5 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler.
Oroklini Marsh – 11 Garganey, Ferruginous Duck, 5 Red-crested Pochard, Little Bittern, 4 Black-crowned Night Heron, Eurasian Stone Curlew, 7 Little Ringed Plover, Common Ringed Plover, 3 Whiskered Tern, 3 Red-rumped Swallow & Great Reed Warbler.
Larnaca Desalination Plant fields – Glossy Ibis, 4 Little ringed Plover, Citrine Wagtail, Great Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler & Willow Warbler.
Bishops Pool – Purple Heron, 3 Squacco Heron, 2 Glossy Ibis, 4 Ferruginous Duck, 2 Wood Sandpiper, 12+ European Turtle Dove, 10 European Bee eater, 2 Western Yellow Wagtail & 5 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler.
Akrotiri Gravel Pits – 7 Black winged Stilt, Greater Sandplover, 9 Kentish Plover, 3 Common Sandpiper & Common Hoopoe.
Karpasia Peninsula – 2 Garganey, Auduoins Gull, Gull billed Tern, Barn Owl, Long legged Buzzard, Eleonoras Falcon, 3 Peregrine Falcon, 2 Raven, 8 European Roller, 33+ Red rumped Swallow, 25+ Western Yellow Wagtail, 2 Isabelline Wheatear, 40+ Common Swift, 15+ Pallid Swift, Eastern Orphean Warbler, Willow Warbler, 17+ Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, Lesser Grey Shrike, Masked Shrike & Spotted Flycatcher.
Agia Napa Sewage Works – 2+ Barred Warbler, 1+ Eastern Orphean Warbler, Cyprus Warbler & 4 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler.
Mavrokolympos Dam – Western Yellow Wagtail, 10+ Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, Willow Warbler, 10+ Cretzchmars Bunting & 3 Masked Shrike.
Phassouri Beehives – Western Marsh Harrier, 40+ Pallid Swift, 20+ Common Swift & 300+ Barn Swallow.
Akrotiri Shipwreck – 81 Kentish Plover & Sandwich Tern.
Germasogeia- 2 Little Swift.
Kensington Cliffs – 5 Eleonora’s Falcon & 50+ Alpine Swift.
Germasogeia – – Long legged Buzzard, 38 European Bee eater & 20+ Pallid Swift.
Latchi – 268 Glossy Ibis.
Paphos Headland – Garganey, 2 Greater Sand Plover & Yellow Wagtail.
Frenaros – 4 Long eared Owl.
Mavrokolympos Dam – 23 European Bee-eater, Common Kingfisher, Red rumped Swallow & Eleonoras Falcon.
Cape Andreas, Karpasia – Red backed Shrike.
Dasoupolis, Nicosia – Lesser grey Shrike.
Germasogeia- 49 European Bee eater.
Polis Chrysochou Bay – 38 Glossy Ibis, 7 Cattle Egret, 9 Common Sandpiper, 2 Black headed Gull, Gull billed Tern, 163 Barn Swallow & 2 Red-rumped Swallow.
Germasogeia – 16 European Bee-eater.
Bishops Pool – 3 Ferruginous Duck, 4 Green Sandpiper, Western Marsh Harrier, 4 Eleonora’s Falcon, 17+ European Turtle Dove & 3 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler.
Kensington Cliffs – 4+ Griffon Vulture, 20+ Eleonora’s Falcon, Peregrine Falcon & Common Kingfisher.
Polis Chrysochou Bay – 250+ Glossy Ibis.
Kouklia Dam (Famagusta) – 40+ Glossy Ibis, 8 Eurasian Spoonbill, 40+ Black-crowned Night Heron, 45+ Squacco Heron, 8 Garganey, 65+ Red-crested Pochard, 270+ Ferruginous Duck, 3 Common Quail, 2 Common Cuckoo, 9 Black-necked Grebe, 152 Greater Flamingo, 830+ Black-winged Stilt, 5 Little Ringed Plover, 35+ Green Sandpiper, 130+ Wood Sandpiper, Spotted Redshank, 10+ Common Greenshank, 90+ Ruff, 4 Curlew Sandpiper, 7 Temminck’s Stint, 50+ Little Stint, 8 Collared Pratincole, 4 Gull-billed Tern & 35+ White-winged Black Tern
Agia Varvara – Black-crowned Night, 45 European Bee-eater, 2 European Turtle Dove, 5 Red-rumped Swallow &
Masked Shrike.
Bishops Pool – 2 Ferruginous Duck, 2 Green Sandpiper, White winged Tern, Little Tern, Eleonora’s Falcon, 3+ European Turtle Dove & Common Hoopoe.
Athalassa Dam – 6 Squacco Heron, 2 Black-crowned Night Heron, 29 Great Cormorant, 90+ European Bee-eater, 3 Alpine Swift & 25+ Eastern Olivaceous Warbler.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 2 Curlew Sandpiper & 3 White winged Tern.
Phassouri Bee-hives – Little Swift, 20+ Pallid Swift & 50+ Common Swift.
Akrotiri Gravel Pits – Squacco Heron, Greater Sandplover, 57 Kentish Plover, Little Stint & Common Greenshank.
Larnaca Desalination Plant fields – Eurasian Curlew, Citrine Wagtail & Great Reed Warbler.
Spiros Pool – Collared Pratincole, 3 Marsh Sandpiper, White winged Tern & 6 Pallid Swift.
Larnaca Sewage Works – Black necked Grebe, Western Marsh Harrier, 22 Common Sandpiper & 6 Green Sandpiper.
Kensington Cliffs – 7 Griffon Vulture.
Larnaca Desalination plant fields – Citrine Wagtail, 30+ Common Swift & 10+ Pallid Swift.
Spiros Pool – Collared Pratincole, 2 Grey Plover, 2 Curlew Sandpiper & 2 Slender billed Gull.
Larnaca Sewage Works – Ruddy Shelduck, 3 Red crested Pochard, Common Pochard, 18 Ferruginous Duck, Green Sandpiper & 16 Common Sandpiper.
Kouklia Dam (Famagusta) – 10 Garganey, 2 Common Teal, 2 Gadwall, 8 Eurasian Spoonbill, 13 Black necked Grebe, 240+ Ruff, 160+ Wood Sandpiper, 270+ Little Stint, Temmincks Stint, 2 Broad billed Sandpiper, Marsh Sandpiper, Spotted Redshank, 2 Curlew Sandpiper, Dunlin, 3 Collared Pratincole, 5 Common Snipe, 45+ Whiskered Tern, 35+ White winged Tern, 2 Gull billed Tern, Barn Owl, Long eared Owl & Rose coloured Starling.
Larnaca Desalination plant fields – 2 Citrine Wagtail & 2 Western Yellow Wagtail.
Larnaca Desalination plant fields- 30+ Glossy Ibis, 2 Eurasian Stone Curlew, Citrine Wagtail & Alpine Swift.
Latchi – 30 Glossy Ibis.
Cape Drapernum – 20 Wood Sandpiper.
Germasogeia – 35 Pallid Swift.
Kouklia Dam (Famagusta) – White headed Duck, 75 Ferruginous Duck, 10 Garganey, 60+ Red Crested Pochard, Purple Heron, 8 Eurasian Spoonbill, 6 Stone Curlew, 700+ Black winged Stilt,, 300 Ruff, 140+ Wood Sandpiper, Marsh Sandpiper, 50+ Green Sandpiper, 15 Common Sandpiper, 150 Little Stint, 10 Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Dunlin, 12 Collared Pratincole, 6 White winged Tern & 2 Whiskered Tern.
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