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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 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.
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.
Mandria – Long legged Buzzard, 10 Red footed Falcon, 37 Stone Curlew, Eurasian Skylark, 4 Northern Wheatear, 2 Isabelline Wheatear, 9 Whinchat, 30+ Yellow Wagtail, Tree Pipit, 50+ Red throated Pipit, Spotted Flycatcher & 3 Red backed Shrike.
Asprokremmos Dam – 2 Red footed Falcon & 2 Spotted Flycatcher.
Mavrokolympos Dam – 2 Cyprus Wheatear, Tree Pipit, 4 Cyprus Warbler, 3 Eurasian Skylark & Red backed Shrike.
Agia Varvara- Spotted Crake, Red footed Falcon, 4 Common Snipe, Tawny Pipit, Northern Wheatear, Whinchat, 6 Sedge Warbler & 20+ Willow Warbler.
Paphos Sewage Plant – 2 Marsh Harrier, 9 Northern Lapwing, 9 Spur winged Lapwing, 5 Tree Pipit, 5 Red throated Pipit, 40+ Yellow Wagtail, 40+ Willow Warbler & 3 Spotted Flycatcher.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 47 Greater Flamingo, 300+ Northern Shoveler, 200+ Common Teal, 83 Ferruginous Duck, 22 Common Pochard, 17 Black necked Grebe, 5 Ruff, 2 Sanderling, 10 Little Stint, 3 Common Redshank, 5 Whiskered Tern, 6 Red throated Pipit, 150+ White Wagtail, 60+ Yellow Wagtail & 2 European Stonechat.
Agia Paraskevi Pond – 2 Northern Pintail, 3 Garganey, 11 Common Teal, European Honey Buzzard, Marsh Harrier, 2 Whiskered Tern, 2 Common Kingfisher & Red backed Shrike.
Akrotiri Marsh – Lesser spotted Eagle, 2 Red footed Falcon, Eleonora’s Falcon, 5 Eurasian Sparrowhawk, 40 Yellow Wagtail, Red throated Pipit, 4 Whinchat & 2 European Stonechat.
Lady’s Mile – European Honey Buzzard, 4 Marsh Harrier, 28 Common Kestrel, 6 Red footed Falcon, Levant Sparrowhawk, 3 Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Red throated Pipit & 33 White Wagtail.
Mandria – Egyptian Vulture, Black kite, 15 Stone Curlew, Common Hoopoe, 30 European Bee eater, Common Swift & Red backed Shrike.
Agia Varvara – Northern Pintail, 2 Garganey, Little Crake, Levant Sparrowhawk, European Bee eater, Great Reed Warbler & 3 Sedge warbler.
Oroklini Marsh – Stock Dove, Common Cuckoo & Eurasian Wryneck.
Oroklini Marsh – 2 Great white Egret, 18 Grey Heron, 15 Black crowned Night Heron, Western Water Rail & Common Snipe.
Akrotiri Marsh – White throated Kingfisher.
Cape Greco – Levant Sparrowhawk.
Akrotiri Water Tower – 3 European Honey Buzzard, Marsh Harrier, Pallid Harrier, 6 Eurasian Sparrowhawk & 3+ Levant Sparrowhawk.
Lady’s Mile – Lesser spotted Eagle, 3 European Honey Buzzard, 4 Marsh Harrier, 7 Eurasian Sparrowhawk, 4 Levant Sparrowhawk, 15 Eleonora’s Falcon, Red footed Falcon & Peregrine.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 33 Greater Flamingo, 300 Northern Shoveler, 3 Northern Pintail, 14 Common Pochard, 40 Ferruginous Duck, 12 Black-necked Grebe, Common Greenshank, Ruff, 3 Whiskered Tern, 2 Armenian Gull & 2 Baltic Gull.
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