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 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.
Timi Beach – Purple Heron, Glossy Ibis & 17 Garganey.
Mandria – 70+ Grey Heron, 16 Glossy Ibis, Eurasian Golden Plover, 2 Eastern black-eared wheatear & 100+ Western Yellow Wagtail.
Timi Beach – White Stork, 2 Stone Curlew, Short eared Owl, 4 Isabelline Wheatear & Ruppells Warbler.
Anarita – Demoiselle Crane.
Mavrokolympos Dam – Common Crane, Hen Harrier, Eurasian Wryneck, Black M eared Wheatear, 2 Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler & 3 Cretzschmar’s Bunting.
Akrotiri Gravel Pits – 8 Common Crane & Caspian Plover.
Cape Greco – Black bellied Sandgrouse & 4 Eastern Subalpine Warbler.
Timi Beach – Short eared Owl, Finschs Wheatear, 6 Northern Wheatear, 2 Isabelline Wheatear, 2 Black eared Wheatear, 2 Black headed Wagtail, Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, 3 Blue rock Thrush.
Paphos Headland – Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush & Desert Finch.
Mandria – 19 Grey Heron, Eurasian Golden Plover & Blue rock Thrush.
Timi Beach Eastern Black eared Wheatear & common Redstart.
Paralimni Lake – 8 Garganey & Ruddy Shelduck.
Agia Triada – 7 Audouins Gull.
Cape Greco – 2 Common Quail.
Agia Varvara – 2 Little Crake.
Akrotiri Gravel Pits – Short eared Owl.
Pervolia – 2 Eurasian Oystercatcher & 7 Greater Sandplover & 2 Kentish Plover.
Softades – Cyprus Wheatear.
Timi Beach – 2 Greater Sandplover & Finsch’s Wheatear.
Paralimni Lake – 25+ Black tailed Godwit & 30+ Ruff.
Achna Dam – Great spotted Cuckoo & Common Hoopoe.
Protaras – Hume’s Warbler.
Paralimni Lake – 3 Common Ringed Plover, 2 Temmincks Stint, 3 Little Stint, 2 Dunlin, Common Redshank & Green Sandpiper.
Oroklini Marsh – 12 Red crested Pochard, 11 Ferruginous Duck, 3 Eurasian Golden Plover, 30 Black winged Stilt, Black tailed Godwit, 2 Eurasian Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler & Penduline Tit.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 4 Red crested pochard, 42 Common Pochard, 145 Ferruginous Duck, Tufted duck, 106 Black necked Grebe, Little ringed Plover & 2 Common Greenshank.
Spiros Pool/Beach – Greater Sand Plover, 10 Kentish plover, Black tailed Godwit, 60+ Ruff, 70+ Dunlin, 55 Little Stilt, 4 Spotted Redshank & 2 Common Greenshank.
Agia Varvara – Red rumped Swallow.
Paphos Headland – Isabelline Shrike.
Droushia to Neo Horio – 2 Long legged Buzzard, Hen Harrier, Eurasian Sparrowhawk & 70+ Corn Bunting.
Akrotiri Gravel Pits – 9 Garganey, 21 Northern Pintail, 8 Northern Shoveler, Cream coloured Courser, 6 Ruff, Sandwich Tern, 4 Pallid Swift, Isabelline wheatear & Tawny Pipit.
M1 Pools – 60+ Cattle Egret, 2 Great spotted Cuckoo & Sedge Warbler.
Cape Greco – 2 Common Raven & 2 Cretzschmar’s Bunting.
Cape Greco – Cretzschmar’s Bunting.
Limassol Greens Golf Course – 2 Red crested Pochard, Bluethroat, 2 Moustached Warbler, Sedge Warbler & 2 Eurasian Reed Warbler.
Cape Greco – 2 Northern Wheatear & Tawny Pipit.
Spiros Pool – Melanistic Greater Flamingo.
M1 Pools – Long legged Buzzard, 2 Great spotted Cuckoo, 2 Pallid Swift, 100+ Common Swift & Sedge Warbler.
Akrotiri Bay – 315 Northern Pintail, Eurasian Curlew & Isabelline Wheatear.
Timi Beach – Pied Kingfisher.
Paralimni Lake – 2 Garganey
Petounta to Alaminos Harbour – Common Quail, Hen Harrier & Merlin.
Cape Greco – Ruppells Warbler.
Bishop’s Pool – 9 Ferruginous Duck, Western Water Rail, 2 Great spotted Cuckoo, 8 Song Thrush, Eurasian Reed Warbler & 2 Hume’s Warbler.
Cape Greco – Tawny Pipit.
Agios Sozomenos – 2+ Little Swift.
Oroklini – Long-legged Buzzard, 2 Peregrine, Little Owl, 5 Woodlark & 15 Cyprus Warbler.
Athalassa Dam – 3 Black crowned Night Heron, Great crested Grebe, Eurasian Stone Curlew & Green Sandpiper.
M1 Pools – Common Snipe, Great spotted Cuckoo & Masked Wagtail.
Tseri – 2 Great spotted Cuckoo
Paphos Headland – 2 Blue rock Thrush.
M1 Pools – 4 Great spotted Cuckoo, Masked Wagtail, 3 Woodlark & 2 Sedge Warbler.
Mitsero – Common Hoopoe.
Ineia – 22 Woodlark, Cyprus warbler & 90 Corn bunting.
Agia Eirini Dam – 16 Tufted Duck & 4 Great spotted Cuckoo.
Cape Pyla – Common Quail, Hen Harrier, 2 Long legged Buzzard, Calandra Lark & Finschs Wheatear.
Gaidoures – Rook.
M1 Pools – Masked Wagtail.
Akrotiri Gravel Pits – 4 Isabelline Wheatear & Tawny Pipit.
Spiros Beach – Greater Sandplover, Eurasian Curlew & Sandwich Tern.
Akrotiri Marsh – Ruddy Shelduck, Eurasian Wigeon, 2 Eurasian Spoonbill, White throated Kingfisher & 9 Red throated Pipit.
Oroklini Marsh – 31 Red crested Pochard, 8 Northern Pintail, 10 Gadwall & 2 Water Pipit.
Bishop’s Pool – 2 Hume’s Warbler.
Paralimni Lake – 14 Red-crested Pochard & 5 Common Pochard.
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