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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 shard through our Twitter feed here and through our WhatsApp group. Please click here to request to join the group.
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.
M1 Pools – 13 Black-crowned Night Heron, Purple Heron, Squacco Heron, 3 Little Crake, Black winged Stilt & Common Kingfisher.
Mandria – Purple Heron, 4 Baltic Gull, Common Redstart, 2 Tawny Pipit & 20 Greater Short toed Lark.
Agia Varvara – Garganey, 3 Spotted Crake, 5+ Little Crake, 9 Greater short toed Lark, Tree Pipit & 5+ Sedge Warbler.
Cape Greco – Bar tailed Lark.
Mandria – 2 Caspian Plover, Gull billed Tern, Bimaculated Lark & Woodchat Shrike.
Timi – 3 Blue cheeked Bee eater.
Agia Vavara – 5 Little Crake, Spotted Crake & 3 Great Spotted Cuckoo.
Cape Greco – Desert Wheatear & Trumpeter Finch.
Kivisili Fields – 5+ Lesser Kestrel, 2 Marsh Harrier & 15 Tawny Pipit.
Pervolia – Short eared Owl, 3 Caspian Tern & 8 Gull billed Tern.
Paphos Headland – Common Quail, 2 Short eared Owl & 4 Slender billed Gull.
Coral Bay – Short eared Owl.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 13 Pied Avocet, 40+ Black winged Stilt, 3 Slender billed Gull & Whiskered Tern.
Larnaca Sewage Works – Pallid Harrier & Black winged Pratincole.
Cape Greco – Eurasian Wryneck, Cyprus Wheatear, Ruppells Warbler & Cyprus Warbler.
Agia Varvara – Little Bittern, 6 Little Crake, Spotted crake, Garganey, Long Legged Buzzard, Richards pipit & Great Reed warbler.
Larnaca Salt Lake – Cream coloured Courser.
Asprokremmos Dam – 4 Black-crowned Night Heron, 6 Great Spotted Cuckoo, Ruppells Warbler, 3 Cyprus Warbler & Cretzschmar’s Bunting.
Anarita Mast – 2 Little Owl, 20 Alpine Swift, Black eared Wheatear, Ruppells Warbler & 2 Cretzschmar’s Bunting.
Anarita Park – 2 Long Legged Buzzard, Great spotted Cuckoo, Finschs Wheatear, Cyprus Wheatear, Cyprus Warbler & Cretzschmar’s Bunting.
Kalo Chorio Orinis – Northern Goshawk.
Akrotiri Marsh – Citrine Wagtail & Savi’s Warbler.
Agia Varvara – 8 Little Crake, 2 Spotted Crake, 20 Ruff, 15 Wood Sandpiper, 10
Green Sandpiper, 2 Citrine Wagtail & 3 Water Pipit.
Akrotiri Marsh – Eurasian Bittern & Savi’s Warbler.
Baths of Aphrodite – Hen Harrier & 2 Common Raven.
Larnaca Desalination Plant fields – Golden Plover, 2 Northern Wheatear, 2 Isabelline Wheatear, 2 Common Hoopoe & 3 Eastern Orphean Warbler.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 2 Ruddy Shelduck, 106 Common Shelduck, 46 Ferruginous Duck, 4 Red crested Pochard, 2 Black necked Grebe, 56 Ruff, Spotted redshank, 3 Greenshank & 2 Red throated Pipit.
Cape Greco – Common Quail, 2 Bimaculated Lark, 30 Greater Short-toed Lark, Eastern Stonechat, 2 Eastern Subalpine Warbler, 3 Eastern Orphean Warbler & Eurasian Crimson-winged Finch.
Agia Varvara – Baillon’s Crake, Spotted Crake, 4 Little Crake & Savi’s Warbler.
Agia Napa Sewage Works – 2 Ruddy Shelduck, 12 Black necked Grebe, 2 Green Sandpiper & Cretzchmars burning –
Mandria – 700+ Yellow Wagtail (six races), 20 Greater Short-toed Lark, 2 Isabelline Wheatear & Bluethroat.
Akrotiri Gravel Pits – 2 Garganey, Eurasian Wryneck, 40+ Greater Short toed Lark, 5 Eastern Subalpine Warbler, Ruppells Warbler, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat & Willow warbler.
Akrotiri Marsh – Eurasian Spoonbill, 20+ Ruff, Wood Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 11 Grey Heron, Great Spotted Cuckoo, 15+ Red rumped Swallow, 6+ Sand Martin, Penduline Tit, 5 Sedge Warbler & 2 Savi’s Warbler.
Cape Greco – Pallid Harrier, Marsh Harrier, Eastern Subalpine Warbler, Common Whitethroat & Willow Warbler.
Agia Varvara – Eurasian Bittern, Spotted Crake & Little Crake.
Baths of Aphrodite – Common Cuckoo.
Mandria – Ruddy Shelduck.
Akrotiri Marsh – Eurasian Spoonbill, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, 8 Little ringed Plover, 20+ Ruff, 3 Marsh Sandpiper, 8 Wood Sandpioer, 3 Great spotted Cuckoo, 2 Common Hoopoe, Bluethroat & 5+ Penduline Tit.
Polis – Rufous tailed rock Thrush & Blue rock thrush.
Mandria – 600+ Yellow Wagtail.
Agia Varvara – 2 Little Crake, Spotted Crake, Bluethroat, 5 Water Pipit, Pallid Swift, 6+ Red rumped Swallow & Sand Martin.
Akrotiri Gravel Pits – Short eared Owl.
Cape Drepanum – Desert Wheatear.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 2 Ruddy Shelduck, Slavonian Grebe, 3 Black necked Grebe, 5 Red crested Pochard, 10 Ferruginous Duck, 5 Black winged Stilt, Baltic Gull & Bluethroat.
Petounda – Gannet & Short eared Owl
Akrotiri Bay – 2 Scopoli’s Shearwater, 11 Pintail, 13 Garganey, Shoveler & Grey Plover, Kittiwake, 2 Sandwich Tern, 6 Northern Wheatear, 5 Isabelline Wheatear, 5 Tawny pipit & 40+ Great Short toed Lark.
Anarita Park – Common Quail, 2 Cyprus Wheatear, 5 Northern Wheatear, 3 Isabelline Wheatear & Cretzschmar’s Bunting.
Asprokremmos Dam – Pallid Harrier, Long legged Buzzard, 5 Great spotted Cuckoo & 6 Common Hoopoe.
Mandria – 2 Common Quail, 2 Common Hoopoe, 6 Northern Wheatear, 10+ Isabelline Wheatear, Desert Wheatear, 2 Calandra Lark, 82+ Yellow Wagtail, 12 Greater Short-toed Lark & Cretzschmar’s bunting.
Kidasi – 2 Finsch’s Wheatear.
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