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.
Paphos Headland – Desert Finch.
Clapsides – 2 Pied Kingfisher.
Agia Varvara – 8 Gadwall, 2 Common Snipe & Water Pipit.
Clapsides – Pied Kingfisher.
Famagusta Lake – 2 White headed Duck.
Akrotiri Marsh – 2 Eurasian Wigeon, 2 Gadwall, 5 Western Marsh Harrier & 2 Common Snipe.
Paphos Headland – Trumpeter Finch.
Agios Sozomenos – Hen Harrier, 3 Little
Owl & 2 Finsch’s Wheatear.
Kidasi – 2 Finsch’s Wheatear.
Paphos Headland – Mediterranean Gull.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 8 Gadwall, 145 Common Pochard, 45 Ferruginous Duck, 45 Black necked Grebe, water Pipit & Red throated Pipit.
Anarita Park – Hen Harrier.
Agia Varvara – Finsch’s Wheatear.
Mandria – Western Marsh Harrier, Pallid Harrier & 50+ Eurasian Skylark.
Paralimni Lake – 700 Greater Flamingo.
Famagusta Freshwater Lake – 4 White-headed Duck.
Spiros Pool – Great spotted Cuckoo.
Kouklia, Famagusta – 15 Greater White fronted Geese & White winged Tern.
Achna Dam – 31 Greater Flamingo, Great white Egret, Common Greenshank & Peregrine Falcon.
Paralimni Lake – Pied Avocet & Marsh Sandpiper.
Akrotiri Marsh – Siberian Pipit.
Paphos Headland – 92 Eurasian Golden Plover, Grey Plover, 2 Kentish Plover & Ruddy Turnstone.
Kouklia, Famagusta – 17 Greater White fronted Geese.
Mandria – Pallid Harrier & 3 Eurasian Stone Curlew.
Orounda – Hen Harrier, Northern Goshawk, 14 Woodlark & Brambling.
Famagusta Freshwater Lake – 4 White-headed Duck.
Oroklini Marsh – 8 Gadwall, 10 Red-crested Pochard & 21 Ferruginous Duck.
Akrotiri Gravel Pits – Hen Harrier.
Anarita Park – Eurasian Hobby.
Akrotiri Marsh – Siberian Pipit.
Kidasi – Hen Harrier & 3 Finsch’s Wheatear.
Agia Napa Sewage Works – Short-toed Snake Eagle.
Mandria – Eurasian Woodcock & Merlin.
Paphos Headland – 62 Eurasian Folden Plover, 2 Greater Sandplover & Grey Plover.
Kouklia, Famagusta – 35 Eurasian Wigeon, 45 Northern Pintail, 5 Gadwall, 40 Ferruginous Duck, 2 Common Crane, Hen Harrier, 160 Northern Lapwing, 23 Black winged Stilt, Eurasian Curlew, Ruff, Whiskered Tern & 6 Calandra Lark.
Akrotiri Marsh – 2 White throated Kingfisher.
Kidasi – 2 Finsch’s Wheatear.
Famagusta Freshwater Lake – 4 White-headed Duck.
Kouklia, Famagusta – 72 Greater Flamingo, 15 Northern Pintail, 3 Western Marsh Harrier, 200+ Northern Lapwing & Eurasian Curlew.
Platania – 11 Hawfinch & 5 Eurasian Siskin.
Livadi tou Passia – Mistle Thrush.
Almirolivado – Goldcrest & Brambling.
Agia Varvara – Eurasian Bittern.
Paphos Headland – 75 Eurasian Golden Plover, 4 Greater Sandplover, Little Gull & Isabelline shrike.
Kouris Dam – Great crested Grebe, Red throated Pipit, 100+ Meadow Pipit & 250+ Eurasian Serin.
Paphos Headland – Little Gull.
Oroklini Marsh – Eurasian Bittern, 4 Northern Pintail, Gadwall, 34 Ferruginous Duck, Western Water Rail, 40 Northern Lapwing, 5 Bluethroat & 2 Water Pipit.
Larnaca Sewage Works – Ruddy Shelduck, 14 Red crested Pochard, 224 Ferruginous Duck, 8 Gadwall, 6 Northern Pintail, 36 Black necked Grebe, Northern Lapwing, Little Stint, Common Redshank, 4 Armenian Gull, Caspian Gull & Yellow Wagtail.
Spiros Pool – 260 Eurasian Golden Plover.
Paralimni Lake – 696 Greater Flamingo.
Larnaca Airport pools North – 23 Greater Flamingo, 2 Stone Curlew, 2 Grey plover, 10 Common Ringed Plover, 76 Little Stint, 85 Dunlin & 6 Common Redshank.
Larnaca Salt Lake – 341 Greater Flamingo, 61 Common Shelduck, 36 Northern Lapwing, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 26 Little Stint, 3 Temmincks Stint, 6 Common Redshank, 2 Mediterranean Gull, 209 Yellow Legged Gull, 6 Armenian Gull, 26 Caspian Gull, 2 Heuglin’s Gull, Baltic Gull, 3 Water Pipit & Bluethroat.
Akrotiri Marsh – 2 Great White Egret, Black-winged Stilt, Northern Lapwing, 20 Common Snipe, 2 Common Redshank, 2 Spotted Redshank, Ruff, White throated Kingfisher & 2 Barn Swallow.
Paphos Archaeological Park – Isabelline Shrike.
Paphos Headland – 34 Eurasian Golden plover, Grey Plover, Kentish plover & 2 Greater Sandplover.
Paphos Headland – 30 Eurasian Golden Plover, 2 Greater Sandplover & 4 Red-throated Pipit.
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