Recent sightings

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.

Cape Greco – Barred Warbler.

Mavrokolympos Dam – Eleonora’s Falcon & Red footed Falcon.

Lady’s Mile – 65 Black winged Stint, 3 Common Greenshank & 12 Wood Sandpiper.

Akrotiri Gravel Pits – Common Tern, 8 Little Tern, Arctic Skua, European Nightjar, 62 European Bee eater, 2 European Turtle Dove, Tree Pipit, 3 Tawny Pipit, Yellow Wagtail, Whinchat, 10+ Blackcap, Barred Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, Eurasian Golden Oriole, Masked Shrike & 6 Spotted Flycatcher.
M1 Pools – 2 Little Bittern, 12+ Squacco Heron, 28 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 4 Temmincks Stint, 2 European Roller & 40+ Sand Martin.

Bishops Pool – 2 Ferruginous Duck, Red footed Falcon, 4+ Eleonora’s Falcon, 15+ Sand Martin.

Akrotiri Gravel Pits – Great Short toed Lark, 3 Tawny Pipit, 2 Common Redstart, 10+ Spotted Flycatcher & Willow Warbler.

Zakaki Run off – 5 Greater Flamingo, 100+ Kentish Plover, 13 Common Ringed Plover, 100+ Little Stint, 5 Ruff, 3 Wood Sandpiper, 3 Gull billed Tern, White winged Tern, Red throated Pipit & Tawny Pipit.

Lady’s Mile – 65 Black winged Stilt, 12 Ruff, 3 Common Greenshank, 2 Wood Sandpiper, 60+ Little Stint.

Agia Varvara – 2 Little Bittern, 6 Squacco Heron, Little Crake, Peregrine, 4 Wood Sandpiper, European Bee eater, 2 Great spotted Cuckoo, 2 Eurasian Turtle Dove, Pallid Swift, 4 Great Reed Warbler, 8 Sedge Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, Eurasian Golden Oriole & 2 Woodchat Shrike.

Paphos Sewage Plant – 4 Spur winged Lapwing, 10 European Turtle Dove, 8 Eurasian Golden Oriole & Spotted Flycatcher.

Mandria – European Roller, Northern Wheatear, 3 Tawny Pipit & Yellow Wagtail.

Akrotiri Gravel Pits – 15 Collared Pratincole, 6 Black winged Stilt, 8 Common Ringed Plover, 5 Kentish Plover, 2 Common Greenshank, 9 Tawny Pipit, 2 Red throated Pipit & 2 Red backed Shrike.

Spiros Pool/Beach – 107 Glossy Ibis, 26 Common Ringed Plover, Little ringed Plover, Dunlin, 3 Broad billed Sandpiper, 4 Curlew Sandpiper,
180+ Little Stint, Caspian Tern, 55 Little Tern, Whiskered Tern, 4 White winged Tern & Common Tern.

Akrotiri Gravel Pits – Rose-coloured Starling.

Agia Vavara – Little Bittern, Purple Heron, Little Crake, 3 Common Snipe & 20 Wood Sandpipers.

Baths of Aphrodite – Cyprus Wheatear, 6+ Eastern Olivaceous Warbler & Wood Warbler.

Agios Minas – Northern Goshawk, Eleonora’s Falcon, Cyprus Wheatear, 5+ European Serin & 3 Cretzchmars Bunting.

Androlikou – Pittokopos – 8+ European Roller, Eastern Black eared Wheatear, 5 Eurasian Golden Oriole, 2 Woodchat Shrike, Red backed Shrike & Black headed Bunting.

Akrotiri Gravel Pits – Rose-coloured Starling.

Androlikou – Pittokopos – 2 Bonelli’s Eagle, Eleonora’s Falcon, Little Owl, 3 Great spotted Cuckoo, 20+ European Roller, European Turtle Dove, Common Hoopoe, 7 Cyprus Wheatear, 3 Tree Pipit, 6 Eurasian Golden Oriole, 2 Red backed Shrike, Spotted Flycatcher & 2 Black headed Bunting.

Androlikou – Neo Horio – Little Owl, European Turtle Dove, 2 Whinchat, 5 Red backed Shrike, Masked Shrike, 10+ Spotted Flycatcher, Pied Flycatcher & 2 Cretzschmar’s Bunting.

M1 Pools – 4 Glossy Ibis, 3 Purple Heron, 20+ Squacco Heron, Common Snipe, 19 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper & 2 Great Reed Warbler.

Akrotiri Gravel Pits – 3 Purple Heron, 8 Ruff, 7 Tawny Pipit, Common Redstart, 2 Whinchat, 2 Pied Flycatcher, 4 Spotted Flycatcher & 2 Red backed Shrike.

Cape Greco – Pallas’s Warbler.

Agia Varvara – 6 Squacco Heron, Little Bittern, 3 Long legged Buzzard, 2 Eleonora’s Falcon, European Turtle Dove, 30+ European Bee eater, Great Reed Warbler & 8+ Sedge Warbler.

Bishops Pool – 11 Purple Heron, Little Bittern, 4 Ferruginous Duck, 2 European Roller, 20 European Bee eater, 5 European Turtle Dove, 6 Pallid Swift, Great Reed Warbler, Garden Warbler, 5 Eurasian Golden Oriole,

Akrotiri Gravel Pits – Whinchat, 2 Wood Warbler, Pied Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher & Woodchat Shrike.

Cape Greco – Pallas’s Warbler.

Spiros Pool – 35 Glossy Ibis, 10 Collared Pratincole, 4 Little ringed Plover, 15 Common Ringed Plover, 100+ Ruff, 5 Temmincks Stint & White winged Tern.

Cape Greco – Icterine Warbler & Pallas’s Warbler.

Cape Andreas – Brown Booby.

Agia Varvara – 6 Squacco Heron, 2 Little Bittern, Little Crake, 3 Garden Warbler, 5 Eurasian Golden Oriole,

Mammari – 2 Stone Curlew, 2 Red-footed Falcon, Common Cuckoo, 4 Great Spotted Cuckoo, 2 European Roller & 2 Tawny Pipit.

Cape Greco – Savi’s Warbler & Barred Warbler.

Orounda – Common Quail, 2 Black winged Stilt, 4 Great Spotted Cuckoo, 7 European Turtle Dove, European Roller, 5 European bee-eater, 2 Wood Warbler, 5 Great Reed Warbler & 2 Sedge Warbler.

Timi Beach – Cream coloured Courser.

M1 Pools – 25+ Squacco Heron, Glossy Ibis, Spotted crake, Montagu’s Harrier, Marsh Harrier, Red footed Falcon, 10+ Wood Sandpiper, 6 Common Sandpiper, 14 European Turtle Dove, 20+ Yellow Wagtail & Great Reed Warbler.

Akrotiri Gravel Pits – 4 Kentish Plover, 11 Little Stint, 11 Ruff, 3 Common Greenshank, 4 European Roller, Whinchat, 3 Tree Pipit, 3 Tawny Pipit, 40+ Yellow Wagtail, 2 Common Whitethroat & 3 Woodchat shrike.

Bishops Pool – Ferruginous Duck, 4 European Turtle Dove, Willow Warbler, 3 Pied Flycatcher & 7 Eurasian Golden Oriole.  

Mavrokolympos Dam – Bonelli’s Eagle, 2 Cyprus Scops Owl, Great spotted Cuckoo, Common Nightingale, 4 Cyprus Wheatear, 3 Whinchat, 3 Wood Warbler, Icterine Warbler, 2 Common Whitethroat, 6 Cyprus Warbler & 2 Spotted Flycatcher.

Agia Varvara – 2 Little Bittern, 5 little Crake, 3 Eurasian Golden Oriole, Barred Warbler & Garden Warbler.

Troodos – Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Cyprus Scops Owl, Common Cuckoo, 5 Pallid Swift, 4 Cyprus Wheatear & 5 Masked Shrike.

Troodos Botanical Gardens – 2 Blue rock Thrush, 4 Cyprus Wheatear, 2 Crag Martin, Pied Flycatcher & 2 Masked Shrike.

Oroklini Marsh – Little Bittern, 3 Purple Heron, Garganey, 8 Red crested Pochard & 5 Ferruginous Duck.

Agia Saranta – Garden Warbler & 5 Eurasian Golden Oriole.

Agia Varvara – 4 Squacco Heron, 5 Little Crake & Barred Warbler.

Spiros Pool – 2 Garganey, Greater Sandplover, 5 Collared Pratincole, Black tailed Godwit, Spotted Redshank, 5 Slender billed Gull, 38 Little Tern, Montagu’s Harrier & Citrine Wagtail.  

Oroklini Marsh – Little Bittern, 3 Purple Heron, Garganey, 8 Red crested Pochard & 5 Ferruginous Duck.

Agia Saranta – Garden Warbler & 5 Eurasian Golden Oriole.

Agia Varvara – 4 Squacco Heron, 5 Little Crake & Barred Warbler.

Mandria – 50+ Glossy Ibis, 16 Collared Pratincole, Pallas’s Gull, Thrush Nightingale, 8 Northern Wheatear, 2 Isabelline Wheatear, Eastern Black eared Wheatear, Tawny Pipit & 300+ Yellow Wagtail.

Timi Beach – Common Quail, 3 Stone Curlew, 2 Baltic Gull, 4 European Turtle Dove, 2 Common Hoopoe, 3 Greater Short toed Lark, 2 Eastern Black eared Wheatear, 4 Northern Wheatear, 5 Red rumped Swallow, Wood Warbler, Spotted Flycatcher & 2 Woodchat Shrike.

Anarita Mast – Red footed Falcon, 18 European Turtle Dove, European Roller, 19 Red throated Pipit, 3 Tree Pipit, 6 Tawny Pipit & Cretzschmar’s Bunting.

Agia Varvara – Little Bittern, 4 Squacco Heron, Little Crake, 40+ European Bee eater, Great spotted Cuckoo, Eurasian Golden Oriole, Great Reed Warbler, 10+ Sedge Warbler, Barred Warbler & 2 Woodchat Shrike.

M1 Pools – 400+ Glossy Ibis, Spotted Crake, Ruff, 2 Little Stint, 3 Common Greenshank, 3 Marsh Sandpiper, 25 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 33 European Bee eater, Common Kingfisher, Citrine Wagtail & 20+ Yellow Wagtail.

Kensington Cliffs – Long legged Buzzard, Peregrine Falcon, 6 Eleonora’s Falcon & 10 Alpine Swift.

Bishops Pool – Little Swift.

Agia Varvara – 18 Purple Heron, Spotted Crake, 2 Little Crake & 12 Wood Sandpiper.

Akrotiri Gravel Pits – Black headed Bunting.

Paphos Headland – 13 Purple Heron, 24 Black crowned Night Heron, 15 Glossy Ibis, Stone Curlew, Eurasian Hobby, 5 Common Nightingale, Thrush Nightingale, 8 Whinchat, 3 Common Whitethroat, 5 Woodchat Shrike, Masked Shrike & 3 Red backed Shrike.

Agia Saranta – European Nightjar, Red backed Shrike & Black headed Bunting.

Cape Greco – 11 Eastern Black eared Wheatear, 7 Northern Wheatear, 2 Isabelline Wheatear, 2 Tawny pipit, 40+ Yellow Wagtail, 2 Woodchat Shrike & Red backed Shrike.

Agia Varvara – Barred Warbler.

M1 Pools – 3 Glossy Ibis, 2 Little Crake, 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Western Marsh Harrier, Wood Sandpiper & 3 Sedge Warbler.

Anarita Park – 2 Bonelli’s Eagle, 3 Long legged Buzzard, Eleonora’s Falcon (dark morph), 8 European Roller, Eastern Black eared Wheatear, 3 Tree Pipit, 3 Whinchat, 3 Collared Flycatcher & 2 Pied Flycatcher.

Cape Drepanum – White Stork, 120+ Glossy Ibis, 7 Little Egret, 2 Cattle Egret, 4 Black crowned Night Heron, 5 Common Quail, 5 Common Nightingale, 6 Greater Short toed Lark, 2 Whinchat, 3 Northern Wheatear, 2 Isabelline Wheatear, Eastern Black eared Wheatear, 60+ Yellow Wagtail & Pied Flycatcher.

Asprokremmos Dam Woods – Common Cuckoo, 4 Tree Pipit, 2 Whinchat, 4 Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler, 5+ Wood Warbler, Semi-collared Flycatcher, 6+ Collared Flycatcher, 3 Pied Flycatcher & 2 Pied Flycatcher.

Akrotiri Salt Lake – 500+ Greater Flamingo, Western Water Rail, 25 Little ringed Plover, 180+ Kentish Plover, 142+ Little Stint, 73 Ruff, 18 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Curlew Sandpiper, Marsh Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 19 Slender billed Gull, Whiskered Tern, Cyprus Wheatear, 109 Greater Short toed Lark, Red throated Pipit, 11 Tree Pipit, 4 Tawny Pipit, 19 Yellow Wagtail, Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler, 2 Spectacled Warbler & 3 Woodchat Shrike.

Mandria – Eurasian Stone Curlew, 40+ Greater Short toed Lark, 40+ Northern Wheatear, 3 Eastern Black-eared Wheatear, 9 Isabelline Wheatear & 15 Yellow Wagtail.

Mavrokolmpos Dam – 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Eurasian Hobby, 2 Great spotted Cuckoo, Common Kingfisher, 30+ Sand Martin, 3 Common Nightingale, Tawny Pipit, 7 Tree Pipit, 4 Whinchat, 3 Wood Warbler, Ruppells Warbler, 5 Cyprus Warbler, 5 Common Whitethroat, Collared Flycatcher, 2 Pied Flycatcher & 2 Cretzschmar’s Bunting.

Agia Varvara – Purple Heron, 7 Little Crake, Wood Sandpiper, 2 Bonelli’s Eagle, Long legged Buzzard, Common Buzzard, 20 European Bee eater, 3 Great spotted Cuckoo, European Turtle Dove, 2 Great Reed Warbler & 25 Sedge Warbler.

10th April –
Kiti Dam woods – 3 Great spotted Cuckoo, Common Hoopoe, Tree Pipit, Common Redstart, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler, 22+ Pied Flycatcher, 8+ Collared Flycatcher, 5 Spotted Flycatcher & Woodchat Shrike.

Spiros Pool – Collared Pratincole, Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Spotted Redshank, 100+ Ruff, Red necked Phalarope, little Tern, Whiskered Tern, White winged Tern & Common Tern.

Asprokremmos Dam – Bonelli’s Eagle, Long legged Buzzard, Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 2 Great spotted Cuckoo, 2 Common Hoopoe, 60+ Tree Pipit, 8+ Wood Warbler, 3 Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler, 10+ Collared Flycatcher, 8+ Pied Flycatcher & 4 Spotted Flycatcher.

Anarita Mast – Western Marsh Harrier, 4 Common Hoopoe, 10+ Whinchat, Tawny Pipit, 6 Tree Pipit & 4 Ortolan Bunting.

Anarita Park – Long legged Buzzard, 2 Northern Wheatear, Isabelline Wheatear, 6 European Roller, 20+ Tree Pipit, 2 Tawny Pipit.

Mavrokolmpos Dam – 70 European Bee eater, 2 Great spotted Cuckoo, Cyprus Wheatear, Common Redstart, Savi’s Warbler, 4 Cyprus Warbler & 3 Pied Flycatcher.

Sunset Beach, Paphos – 14 Gull billed Tern, 3 Greater Short toed Lark, 2 Red throated Pipit, 2 Common Nightingale, 3 Eastern Subalpine Warbler & Ruppells Warbler.

Timi Beach – Common Quail & Trumpeter Finch.

Paphos Headland – Northern Gannet.

M1 Pools – Spotted Crake & Little Crake.

M1 Pools – 4 Glossy Ibis, 2 Little Crake, 2 Great spotted Cuckoo, 3 European Roller, European Turtle Dove, Bimaculated Lark & 5 Sand Martin.

Bishops Pool – Ferruginous Duck, Eurasian Hobby, Tree Pipit, 2 Wood Warbler, 10+ Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler, 5+ Collared Flycatcher & 2 Pied Flycatcher.

Asprokremmos Dam – 20 Tree Pipit, 3 Common Redstart, 3 Wood Warbler, 4 Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler, 12 Collared Flycatcher & 3 Pied Flycatcher.

Paphos Headland – 2 Northern Gannet.

Asprokremmos Dam – 4 Common Hoopoe, Tree Pipit, Common Redstart, Wood Warbler, 3 Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler, 7+ Collared Flycatcher & 5 Pied Flycatcher.

Cape Greco – Lesser Kestrel, European Roller, Blue rock Thrush, Whinchat, Common Redstart, 3 Collared Flycatcher & Semi-collared Flycatcher.

M1 Pools – 3 Glossy Ibis, Baillon’s Crake, 2 European Roller, Great spotted Cuckoo & Savi’s Warbler.

Larnaca Salt lake – 7 Purple Heron, 25 Slender billed Gull, Wood Warbler & Ruppells Warbler.

Spiros Pool – 87 Glossy Ibis, 12 Purple Heron, 3 Black crowned Night Heron, Caspian Plover, 12 Ringed Plover, 2 Little ringed Plover, 2 Grey Plover, 6 Marsh Sandpiper, 30+ Ruff, 20+ Little Stint, 16 Slender billed Gull, 3 Little Tern, Gull billed Tern, White winged Tern, 4 Sandwich Tern, 38 Greater Short toed Lark, 50+ Yellow Wagtail & Citrine Wagtail.

Cape Andreas – Brown Booby.

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