Recent sightings

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.

Kannoures Track, Troodos – Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush, 3 Goldcrest, 20 Red Crossbill & 30 Brambling.

Asprokremmos Dam – 8 White fronted Geese & Common Quail.

Mammari – Merlin, Northern Lapwing & Finsch’s Wheatear.

Paphos Sewage Plant – 11 Stock Dove.

Asprokremmos Dam – 8 White fronted Geese.

Mandria – 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Turkestan Short-toed Lark & 40+ Eurasian Skylark.

Agios Sozomenos – Pallid Harrier & 3 Finschs Wheatear.

Akrotiri Marsh – 2 Squacco Heron, Green Sandpiper, Black winged Kite, Peregrine Falcon, Long eared Owl, 2 Bluethroat, Moustached Warbler, Penduline Tit & 44 Common Starling.

Akrotiri Gravel Pits – Desert Wheatear

Frenaros – Hen Harrier

Akrotiri Marsh – 2 Squacco Heron, Green Sandpiper, Black winged Kite, Peregrine Falcon, Long eared Owl, 2 Bluethroat, Moustached Warbler, Penduline Tit & 44 Common Starling.

Akrotiri Gravel Pits – Desert Wheatear

Frenaros – Hen Harrier

Akrotiri Marsh – 2 Greater Flamingo, 2 Squacco Heron, 2 Northern Pintail, Black-winged Kite, 5 Marsh Harrier, 3 Common Snipe, 2 White throated Kingfisher, Common Kingfisher, 2 Bluethroat, 5 Water Pipit, Moustached Warbler & 4 Penduline Tit.

Agia Varvara – Spotted crake, Little Owl, Blue rock thrush & Great Reed Warbler.

Agios Sozomenos – Long legged Buzzard, 3 Little Owl, 4 Finschs Wheatear & Blue Rock Thrush.

Achna Dam – 3 Great White Pelican & 8 Greater Flamingo.

Larnaca Sewage Works – 28 Greater Flamingo, 772 Northern Shoveler, 3 Northern Pintail, 469 Common Teal, 8 Red-crested Pochard, 44 Common Pochard, 208 Ferruginous Duck, 33 Black-necked Grebe, 7 Northern Lapwing, 5 Common Redshank, 88 Black-headed Gull, 2 Armenian Gull, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Barn Swallow 2 Bluethroat.

Agia Eirini Dam – 7 Greater Flamingo, 23 Northern Shoveler, 46 Common Pochard, 2 Bonelli’s Eagle, 7 Common Snipe, 2 Common Redshank & 16 Calandra Lark.

Akrotiri Gravel Pits – Desert Wheatear.

Akrotiri Marsh – Western Water Rail, 2 Marsh Harrier, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, White throated kingfisher, 2 Bluethroat & Penduline Tit.

Larnaca Sewage Works – Common Crane, Mediterranean Gull, Slender billed Gull, 3 Bluethroat & Eurasian Wren.

Achna Dam – 3 Great white Pelican.

Akrotiri Gravel Pits coast – Grey Plover, 32 Kentish Plover, Ruddy Turnstone, 2 Dunlin & Desert Wheatear.

Akrotiri Marsh – Black-winged Kite & White throated Kingfisher.

Akrotiri Marsh – Squacco Heron, 2 Water Rail, Black-winged Kite, 2 Bonelli’s Eagle, 4 Marsh Harrier, Common Buzzard, Steppe Buzzard, 3 Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Eleonora’s Falcon, 4+ Red throated Pipit, 4 Water Pipit, Yellow Wagtail & Reed Bunting.

Cape Kormakitis – Tree Sparrow & 2 Red fronted Serin.

Paphos Headland – 2 Eurasian Golden Plover, Greater Sandplover, Common Sandpiper, 30+ Eurasian Skylark & 8 Red throated Pipit.

Germasogeia- Common Rosefinch.

Larnaca Sewage Works – 44 Greater Flamingo, 300 Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, 200 Common Teal, 4 Red-crested Pochard, 68 Common Pochard, 60+ Ferruginous Duck, 27 Black-necked Grebe, 7 Common Redshank, 136 Black-headed Gull, 2 Armenian Gull, Whiskered Tern, 5 Stock Dove, 4 Barn Swallow & Bluethroat.

Akrotiri Gravel Pits coast – Greater Sandplover.

Akrotiri Marsh – Black winged Kite & 4 Penduline Tit

Athalassa Dam – 82 Northern Shoveler, 10 Common Teal, Ferruginous Duck, 81 Great Cormorant, Black-crowned Night Heron, 12 Little Egret, 5 Great White Egret, 2 Cattle Egret, 8 Grey Heron, 2 Common Kingfisher & 2 Song Thrush.

Mandria – 2 European Shag, 20+ Eurasian Skylark, Northern Wheatear, Common Redstart, Black Redstart, Yellow Wagtail, Red throated Pipit & Common Starling.

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.

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