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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.
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.
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Pomos – 718+ Garganey, Ferruginous Duck, Northern Shoveler, 27 Demoiselle
Crane, 263 Purple Heron, Grey Heron, 8 Squacco Heron, 268 Glossy Ibis, 21 Little Egret, Cattle Egret, Scopoli’s Shearwater, 3 Little ringed Plover, Red Knot, Ruddy Turnstone, Baltic Gull, 13 Gull billed Tern, Western Marsh Harrier, Western Yellow Wagtail & 2 Willow Warbler.
Cape Greco – 13 Glossy Ibis, 10 European Honey Buzzard, Whinchat, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Barred Warbler, 4 Lesser Grey Shrike & Masked Shrike.
Akrotiri Water Tower – 500 European Honey Buzzard & Pallid Harrier.
Pomos – 71 Purple Heron, Grey Heron, 7 Little Egret, 228 Glossy Ibis, 360+ Garganey, 13 Gull billed Tern, Eleonora’s Falcon & Common Hoopoe.
Cape Greco – 54 Demoiselle Crane, -3 Purple Heron, 2 European honey Buzzard, 4 Black Kite, 2 Red backed Shrike & Lesser grey Shrike.
Larnaca Desalination plant fields – Wood Sandpiper, Temmincks Stint, Collared pratincole, 12 Western Yellow Wagtail & Citrine Wagtail.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 12 Garganey, 2 Red crested Pochard, 5 Ferruginous Duck, Common Greenshank, 30+ Ruff 4 Whiskered Tern, White winged Tern, 2 Red rumped Swallow, Isabelline Wheatear & 12 Western Yellow Wagtail.
Meneou Beach – 5 Ruddy Turnstone.
Pomos – 1,210+ Garganey, 6+ Scopoli’s Shearwater, 2 Yelkouan Shearwater, 100+ Ruff, 10 Black tailed Godwit, Common Redshank, Eurasian Curlew, Baltic Gull, European Honey Buzzard, Common Hoopoe, 2 Common Swift & Lesser Whitethroat.
Cape Greco – 17 European Honey Buzzard, Western Marsh Harrier, 41 European Bee Eater, Common Hoopoe, 3 Pallid Swift, 4 Eastern Orphean Warbler, 10 Willow Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, 2 Spotted Flycatcher, 3 Masked Shrike & 2 Ortolan Bunting.
Oroklini Marsh – Spotted Redshank, 29 Spur Winged Lapwing, 2 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 4 Little Stint, Sanderling, 4 Little Ringed Plover, 5 Common Ringed Plover & Red necked Phalarope.
Polis – 50+ Alpine Swift & Common Hoopoe.
Mia Milia Sewage Works – 100+ Northern Shoveler, 430+ Cattle Egret, 10 Ruff, 18 Little Stint, Temmincks Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, 3 Whiskered Tern, 50+ Western Yellow Wagtail & 2 Citrine Wagtail
Agios Sozomenos – 17 Ferruginous Duck, Green Sandpiper, Long legged Buzzard, European Roller, European Bee eater, Common Hoopoe, Red backed Shrike & Lesser grey Shrike.
Pomos – 249 Purple Heron, 8 Grey Heron, 188 Glossy Ibis, 3 Scopoli’s Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, 3 Common Sandpiper & Western Yellow Wagtail.
Spiros pool – Greater Sandplover, Broad billed Sandpiper, Marsh Sandpiper, Sanderling, Ruddy Turnstone, 9 Common Ringed Plover, 3 Temmincks Stint, 2 Dunlin & 2 Curlew Sandpiper.
Larnaca Desalination Plant fields – Eurasian Sparrowhawk, 2+ Great Reed Warbler, Citrine Wagtail & Red backed Shrike.
Artemis Trail, Troodos – 4 Griffon Vulture, 2 Eurasian Sparrowhawk, 6 Purple Heron, 3 Common Hoopoe, 8 European Bee eater, 7 Alpine Swift, 10 Pallid Swift, 4 Red-rumped Swallow, 9 Willow Warbler, Eurasian Blackcap, 14 Spotted Flycatcher & 6 Red Crossbill.
Latchi – 104 Demoiselle Crane.
Agia Marina (Chrysochou Bay) – 74 Glossy Ibis, 2 Baltic Gull, European Turtle Dove & Grey Wagtail.
Pomos – 35+ Garganey, Western Marsh Harrier, Common Hoopoe & 2 Western Yellow Wagtail.
Agia Marina (Chrysochou Bay) – 50+ Garganey, 7 Glossy Ibis, 7 Common Little Bittern, Common Sandpiper, Baltic Gull & Eleonora’s Falcon.
Mavrokolympos Dam – 102 Demoiselle Crane.
Akrotiri – 50 Demoiselle Crane.
Goudi – 100 Demoiselle Crane.
Larnaca Desalination Plant fields – 13 Glossy Ibis, Squacco Heron, 2 Wood Sandpiper, 8 Pallid Swift, 3 Sand Martin & Savi’s Warbler.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 2 Northern Shoveler, 9 Ferruginous Duck, Black necked Grebe, 4 Greater Flamingo, 3 Purple Heron, 26 Black winged Stilt, Little Ringed Plover, Black tailed Godwit, Ruddy Turnstone, 3 Ruff, Sanderling, 12 Little Stint, 8 Collared Pratincole & Gull billed Tern.
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.
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