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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 and shared through our Twitter feed.
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.
Eurasian Bittern – Akrotiri Marsh
Baillons Crake – Akrotiri Marsh
8x Blue cheeked bee eater – Spiros Pool
Hooded wheatear – Cape Greco
Great reed warbler – Paphpos Headland
Blue cheeked bee eater – Mandria
Montagu’s harrier – Mandria
Red footed falcon – Kivisili
Icterine warbler (first of the spring) Paphos Headland
Eurasian Golden oriole – Pissouri
Namaqua dove – Larnaca coast
X2 Blue cheeked bee eater – Akrotiri Marsh
X3 Blue cheeked bee eater – Bishops Pool
Great snipe – Ayia Varvara
Barred warbler – Bishops Pool
2x Blue cheeked bee eater – Lady’s Mile
Baillon’s crake – Ayia Varvara
Great snipe – Ayia Varvara
3x Red necked phalarope – Lady’s Mile
The first fledged Barn swallows and House martins being reported across the island.
Citrine wagtail – M1 Pools
X2 blue cheeked bee eater – Akrotiri Marsh
X14 Curlew sandpiper – Lady’s Mile
Red necked phalarope – Lady’s Mile
Black headed bunting – Androlikou
Trumpeter finch – Cape Greco
Hooded wheatear – Cape Greco
Finschs wheatear – Cape Greco
Greater Sandplover – Mandria
Rufous tailed Rock thrush – Aphrodite nature trail
X10 Griffon Vulture – Troodos
Red footed falcon – (first of the spring) – Pissouri
Cinereous bunting – Kensington cliffs
Hooded wheatear – Cape Greco
Red necked phalarope – Lady’s Mile
X2 Avocet – Lady’s Mile
X8 Little crake – Ayia Varvara
Baillons crake – Ayia Varvara
X2 Collared pratincole – Lady’s Mile
Little swift – M1 pools
Great snipe – M1 pools
Rufous tailed Rock thrush – Inea
Crag Martin – Troodos
Goshawk – Troodos
Eurasian Hobby – (first of the spring) Cape Greco
Red necked phalarope – Larnaca Sewage works
Red necked phalarope – Lady’s Mile
2x Citrine wagtails – Mandria
Baillon’s crake – Ayia Paraskevi pond
Red backed shrike – Cape Greco
Lesser kestrel – Kivisili
Black headed bunting – (first of the spring) Protaras
Barred warbler – (first of the spring) Cape Greco
Corncrake – Cape Greco
Red necked phalarope – Larnaca sewage works
Little bittern – Ayia Varvara
Common cuckoo – Troodos village
23 (!) Collared flycatcher – Cape Greco
Red backed shrike – (first of the spring) Larnaca sewage works
Yelkouan Shearwater – Cape Greco
Little swift – M1 pools, Akrotiri
Great snipe – Ayia Paraskevi pond
Gull billed tern – Oroklini lake
Blue cheeked bee eaters – Ayia Paraskevi pond
4 Little swift – Cape Greco
Little swift – Mandria
Citrine wagtail – Mandria
Semi collard flycatcher – Paphos headland
Hooded wheatear – Pegeia
Terek Sandpiper – Akrotiri Gravel pits
3 Little swifts reported – Asprokremmnos Dam
Great snipe – Ayia Varvara
Great snipe -Akrotiri Marsh
1500+ Glossy Ibis – Paphos headland
1000+ Larnaca airport coast
European Roller – (first of the spring) Anarita park
Eleanora’s Falcon – (first of the spring) Asprokremmnos Dam
Great snipe – Ayia Varvara
9 Blue cheeked bee eater – Akrotiri Marsh
Blue cheeked bee eater – Paphos Headland
Blue cheeked bee eater – Cape Greco
x6 Little crake -Agia paraskevi lake
x5 Griffon vulture – Upper Dhiarizos valley
Osprey – Asprokremmnos Dam.
Wood warbler – Cape Greco
Eurasian Golden oriole – (first of the spring) Paphos headland
x4 Blue cheeked bee eater – Akrotiri Marsh
Baillon’s crake – Ayia Varvara
European Bee eater – Cape Greco
Semi coloured flycatcher – Paphos headland
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