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 group. Please click here to request to join the group.
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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.
Agia Varvara – Spotted Crake, 2 Bluethroat & 2 Moustached Warbler.
Paphos Sewage Works
Purple Heron, 13 Spur-winged Lapwing, 2 Tree Pipit, 4+ Red throated Pipit, 3 Yellow Wagtail, Whinchat & 3 Common Starling.
Livadi tou Pashia – 12+ Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, 9 Blackbird, Tree Pipit, 2 Short-toed Treecreeper, 9 Eurasian Jay, 17 Chaffinch & Hawfinch.
Pachyammos – 147 Scopoli’s Shearwater, 2 Yelkouan Shearwater, 5 Great white Egret, 29 Common Teal, Pallid Harrier, 5 Slender billed Gull, 3 Baltic Gull & Woodlark.
Pomos Dam – Male Hen Harrier & Brambling.
Stavros tis Psokas – 2 Goldcrest.
Achna Dam – Ruddy Shelduck, Gadwall, 5 Ringed Plover, Greenshank, 2 Ruff, 4 Curlew Sandpiper, 8 Dunlin, 4 Red-throated Pipit & Penduline Tit.
Akrotiri Marsh – 2 Great white Pelican.
Pachyammos – 37 Scopoli’s Shearwater & 3 European Shag.
Prodromos 3 Hawfinch.
Oroklini Marsh – Eurasian Spoonbill, 78 Greater Flamingo, 8 Black-winged Stilt, 5 Ringed Plover, 8 Northern Lapwing, 80 Spur-winged Lapwing, 25 Common Snipe, 3 Temminck’s Stint, 6 Dunlin, 15 Little Stint & Eastern Stonechat.
Akrotiri Marsh – Levant Sparrowhawk, 11 Stock Dove, White throated Kingfisher, Western Water Rail, 12 Water Pipit, Bluethroat, Moustached Warbler, 3 Penduline Tit & Red backed Shrike.
Kourion Stadium – Eleonora’s Falcon, 8 Woodlark & 3 Black Redstart.
Mavrokolympos Dam – Finschs Wheatear & 7+ Cyprus Warbler.
Prodromos – 2 Dunnock, 2 Goldcrest & Brambling.
Prodromos – Eurasian Woodcock, Mistle Thrush & 2 Goldcrest.
Akrotiri Gravel Pits – Richard’s Pipit.
Oroklini Marsh – Glossy Ibis, Eurasian Spoonbill & 4 Northern Lapwing.
Pittokopos to Androlikou road – 2 Common Raven, Common Redstart & 30+ European Serin.
Paphos Sewage Plant – 2 Marsh Harrier, Hen Harrier, 22+ Red throated Pipit, 20 Water Pipit & 2 Yellow Wagtail.
Mandria – 6 Northern Wheatear, Whinchat & 150 Common Linnet.
Cape Greco – 3 Woodlark & Tree Pipit.
Achna Dam – Ruddy Shelduck, 2 Gadwall, Great white Egret, Little winged Plover, Common Snipe, 2 Ruff & Common Greenshank.
Larnaca Airport coast – 22 Common Ringed Plover, 48 Little Stint & 6 Dunlin.
Oroklini Marsh – Eurasian Spoonbill, 3 Northern Pintail, 4 Northern Lapwing, 18 Black winged Stilt, 3 Common Ringed Plover, 25+ Common Snipe, 15 Little Stint, Temmincks Stint, 6 Dunlin, Water Pipit & Penduline Tit.
Akrotiri Marsh – Purple Heron, 2 Squacco Heron, 2 Bonelli’s Eagle, 3 Marsh Harrier, Hen Harrier, 2 Common Buzzard, 4 Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Levant Sparrowhawk, 2 Red footed Falcon, 5 Water Pipit, 5 Red throated pipit, Yellow Wagtail, Bluethroat & 2 Eurasian Reed Warbler.
Bishop’s Pool – Ferruginous Duck, Marsh Harrier, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, 25+ Willow Warbler, 5 Common Chiffchaff & Spotted Flycatcher.
Akrotiri Gravel Pits – Pied Avocet.
Agia Varvara – Northern Pintail, Eurasian Reed Warbler, 2 Willow Warbler & Common Chiffchaff.
Paphos Sewage Plant – 15 Spur winged Lapwing, Tree Pipit & 6+ Willow Warbler.
Cape Greco – 2 Red-footed Falcon, 2 Peregrine Falcon & 2 Blue Rock Thrush.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 51 Greater Flamingo, 240 Northern Shoveler, 200 Mallard, 250+ Teal, Red-crested Pochard, 29 Common Pochard, 69 Ferruginous Duck, 25 Black-necked Grebe, 2 Green Sandpiper, 11 Common Redshank & 5 Whiskered Tern.
Mavrokolympos Dam – Peregrine Falcon, Cyprus Wheatear, 10 Cyprus Warbler, Willow Warbler, 10+ European Stonechat & 6 European Serin.
Agia Varvara – Moustached Warbler.
Akrotiri Marsh – Squacco Heron, 2 Black Kite, Common Kingfisher, 6 Eurasian Skylark, Water Pipit, Red throated Pipit & Yellow Wagtail.
Akrotiri Gravel Pits coast – 2 Grey Plover, 4 Common Ringed Plover, 20+ Kentish Plover, 2 Ruddy Turnstone & 3 Dunlin.
Akrotiri Marsh – Black Stork, Egyptian Vulture & 11 Red footed Falcon.
Famagusta Freshwater Lake – 30+ Ferruginous Duck, Marsh Harrier, Green Sandpiper, 3 Whiskered Tern & Common Kingfisher.
Athalassa Dam – 9 Black-crowned Night Heron, 3 Great White Egret, 250 Cattle Egret, 4 Common Kingfisher, 3 Grey Wagtail, 3 Song thrush & 15 European Robin.
Paphos Headland – 2 Greater Sandplover
Agios Sozomenos – 14 Northern Shoveler, Common Raven, Finschs Wheatear, 20+ Yellow
Wagtail, Red throated Pipit & Willow Warbler.
Akrotiri Gravel Pits – White Stork, Northern Goshawk, Grey Plover, 3 Common ringed Plover, 30+ Kentish Plover, Dunlin & 2 Ruddy Turnstone
Achna Dam – Black Stork, 3 Curlew Sandpiper, Dunlin & 4 Little Stint.
Akrotiri Marsh – Squacco Heron, Purple Heron, Common Buzzard, 2 Black Kite, Eurasian Hobby, White throated Kingfisher, 2 Common Kingfisher, 6 Eurasian Skylark, 5 Red throated Pipit, 10+ Yellow Wagtail & 3 Common Starling.
Akrotiri Salt Lake – 12 Greater Flamingo
Lady’s Mile – 6 Sanderling
Mandria – Western Marsh Harrier, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, 33+ Stone Curlew, 10+ Red throated pipit, 2 Tree Pipit, 10+ Yellow Wagtail & Red backed shrike.
Agia Varvara – Northern Pintail, 4 Common Teal, Western Water Rail & Great reed Warbler.
Mandria – 24 Stone Curlew, Red footed falcon, Tree Pipit, 5 Red throated Pipit, 3 Willow Warbler & Red backed shrike.
Asprokremmos Dam – Hen Harrier, Little Owl, 2 Blue rock Thrush, 20+ Common Stonechat, Red throated Pipit, 30+ Willow Warbler & Red backed shrike.
Akrotiri Gravel Pits – Greater Sand Plover, 5 Common Ringed Plover, 15 Kentish Plover, Ruddy Turnstone, 2 Dunlin & 2 Sanderling.
Paphos headland – Greater Sand Plover, 3 Common Sandpiper, Isabelline Wheatear, Common Redstart, Red throated Pipit, 2 Whinchat & Common Chaffinch.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 27 Greater Flamingo, 2 Red crested Pochard, 60+ Ferruginous Duck, 21 Common Pochard, Eurasian Hobby, 2 Temmincks Stint, Audouin’s Gull & 5 Whiskered Tern.
Akrotiri Marsh – Western Water Rail, 9 Red footed Falcon, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, 2 White throated Kingfisher & 2 Common Kingfisher.
Cape Aspro – Kourion: Marsh Harrier, 3 Eurasian Sparrowhawk, 256 Eleonora’s Falcon, 2 Blue rock Thrush, Northern Wheatear & 2 European Robin.
Governor’s Beach – 82 Great White Egret, 51 Little Egret, 14 Grey Heron, 200+ Great Cormorant, 92 Yellow
legged Gull, 5 Black headed Gull & 262 Barn Swallow.
Mandria – 2 Marsh Harrier, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, 17 Stone Curlew, 10 Northern Wheatear, 22 Whinchat, 2 Tree Pipit, 10 Red throated Pipit, 200+ White Wagtail, 10+ Willow Warbler & 3 Red backed Shrike.
Paphos Sewage Works – 9 Whinchat, 8 Tree Pipit, 8 Red throated Pipit, Water Pipit, 30+ Yellow Wagtail, 150+ White Wagtail & 16 Willow Warbler.
Agia Varvara – Western Water Rail, Spotted Crake, Red footed Falcon, 3 Common Snipe, Finschs Wheatear, 4 Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, 3 Sedge Warbler.
M1 Pools – Black Kite, Marsh Harrier, 20+ European Bee eater & 2 Whinchat.
Akrotiri Salt Lake – 20 Greater Flamingo, Common Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher & 2 Red backed Shrike.
Akrotiri – Hen Harrier, Marsh Harrier, 2 Eurasian Sparrowhawk & Red backed shrike.
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