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February 26th, 2017

26/2/2017

 

Cyprus Bird watching Tours- BIRD is the WORD Sightings: 09/01/17 - 25/02/17

Secret Valley 09-jan
10+ Crag Martin
2 Great Cormorants
Coot
Common teal inc. x1 leucistic
Mallard
3 Bonelli's Eagle
1 Griffon vulture (site first?)
1 Goshawk
1 Sparrowhawk (m)
1 Hen Harrier (f)
Sardinian Warbler
Zitting cisticola
cetti's warbler
blackcap
stonechat
black redstart
1 Blue rock thrush (f)
song thrush
blackbird
goldfinch
chaffinch
serin
meadow pipit
woodlark
chukar
great tit

Kouklia
1 Long-legged Buzzard
1 Common Buzzard

Phassouri Marsh 17 - Jan
4+ Reed Bunting
8+ Black Francolin
Linet
Goldfinch
Corn Bunting
3 Mallard
1 Mediterranean Gull
2 Yellow-legged Gull
1 Heuglin's Gull
4 Common Buzzard
3 Marsh Harrier
1 Hen Harrier
Stonechat
Cetti's Warbler
Sardinian Warbler
Blackcap
Zitting Cisticola
Chiffchaff
Spanish Sparrow
Chaffinch
Great Tit
2 Common Snipe
1 Greenshank
1 Bluethroat
Song Thrush
(2 Plover types flew in)

Lady's Mile
3 Sandwich Tern
4 Common Gull
5+ Caspian Gull
10+ Armenian Gull
2 Yellow Legged Gull
Black-headed Gull
1 Slender-billed Gull
Greater Flamingo
1 Green Sandpiper
2 Northern Shoveler
1 Long-legged Buzzard
1 Marsh Harrier
1 Great Cormorant
2 Common Kestrel
Grey Heron
White Wagtail
1 Grey Wagtail

Limassol Port Canal
1 Little Egret
1 Common Buzzard
1 Little Grebe
Moorhen
Coot

Zakaki Marsh
Common Teal
Coot
Mooorhen
Mallard
2 Marsh Harrier
1 Long-legged Buzzard
4 Common Buzzard

Paphos Sewage Plant 21-Jan 
1 Green Sandpiper
2 Peregrine Falcon (1ad1juv)
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Hen Harrier (m)
1 Northern Lapwing
10+ Spur-winged Lapwing
5 Cattle Egret
Serin
Goldfinch
Linnet
Chaffinch
Spanish Sparrow
Chiffchaff
Sardinian Warbler
Blackcap
Robin
Song Thrush
3 Common Buzzard
White Wagtail
6 Common Kestrel
Meadow Pipit
Black Redstart
1 Great Cormorant

Mandria
1 Hen Harrier
4 Common Buzzard
1 Bonelli's Eagle
1 Peregrine Falcon
1 Sparrowhawk
Common Kestrel
22+ Common Crane (1 almost predated by Bonelli's Eagle)
1 Black Francolin
Eurasian Skylark
Crested Lark
Golden Plover
Spanish Sparrow
Serin
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Linnet
Meadow Pipit
2 Red-throated Pipit
Blackcap
Robin

Minthis hills 29-Jan
1 Dunnock
2 Stonechat
1 Black Redstart
Robin
Chukar
Serin 
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Chiffchaff
Sardinian Warbler
Blackcap
Common Teal
Coot
Little Grebe
White Wagtail
1 Grey Wagtail
1 Water Pipit
3 Long Legged Buzzard
1 Hen Harrier
1 Bonelli's Eagle
1 Sparrowhawk
2 Common Kestrel
Song Thrush
Blackbird
Corn Bunting
Great Tit

Mandria 30-Jan 
1 Hen Harrier
1 Peregrine Falcon
1 Common Buzzard
8 Common Kestrel
1 Crag Martin
1 Bluethroat
Serin
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
linnet
Chaffinch
Spanish Sparrow
House Sparrow
Zitting Cisticola
Sardinian Warbler
Blackcap
1 Cetti's Warbler
Chiffchaff
White Wagtail
Golden Plover
Skylark
Crested Lark
Robin
Stonechat
Black Redstart
Meadow Pipit
5 Red-throated Pipit
Corn Bunting

Paphos Sewage Plant
2 Snipe
1 Green Sandpiper
1 Common teal
4 Cattle Egret
1 Grey Wagtail
4 Common Buzzard
1 Long Legged Buzzard (East side)
1 Bonelli's Eagle (East side)
2 Alpine Swift (Discovered, first of the year)
1 Sparrowhawk
12+ Spur-winged Lapwing
White Wagtail
Meadow Pipit
Skylark
Stonechat
Serin 
Goldfinch
Linnet
Chaffinch
Spanish Sparrow

Episcopi (Paphos) 2-Feb
2 Peregrine Falcon
Serin
Goldfinch
House Sparrow
1 Blue rock thrush
chiffchaff
sardinian warbler
robin
linnet
song thrush
blackbird
1 Sparrowhawk
Woodlark
Stonechat
2 Common Kestrel

Anarita Park
Woodlark
3 Finsch's wheatear (2m1f)
1 Little Owl
2 Bonelli's Eagle
Stonechat
1 Black redstart
Sardinia Warbler
2 Zitting cisticola
Greenfinch
Spanish Sparrow
2 chukar

Mandria
1 Common Buzzard
1 Hen Harrier
30+ Golden plover
skylark
crested lark
spanish sparrow
serin
goldfinch
linnet

Koloni
1 Long-legged buzzard
coot

Anavargos Hills 6-Feb
1 Little Owl
1 Scops Owl (heard)
Sardinian Warbler
2 Cyprus Warbler
Blackcap
2 Black Redstart
50+ Woodlark
Serin
Linnet
Spanish Sparrow
Chaffinch
Great Tit
Song Thrush
1 Blackbird
4 Robin
1 Cetti's Warbler
Sardnian Warbler
1 Zitting Cisticola
Stonechat
Crested Lark
2 Eurasian Skylark
4 Chukar
2 Common Kestrel
1 Siskin
2 Greenfinch
10+ Goldfinch

Paphos Sewage Plant 07-Feb
1 Common Swift

Mandria 08-Feb
1 Sandwich Tern
2 Baltic Gull
10+ Yellow-legged Gull
1 Kentish Plover
1 Isabelline Wheatear (discovered first of the year)
20+ Stone Curlew
80+ European Golden Plover
Crested Lark
Skylark
1 Red-throated Pipit
Meadow Pipit
Spanish Sparrow
House Sparrow
Serin
Linnet
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Corn Bunting
6 Common Kestrel
White Wagtail
1 Black Redstart
10+ Stonechat
1 Sparrowhawk

Paphos Headland 12-Feb
1 Common Kingfisher
2 Great Crested Grebe
1 Great Cormorant
1 Shag
3 Yellow-legged Gull
European Golden Pllover
1 Grey Plover
4 Greater Sand Plover
1 Common Sandpiper
1 Dunlin
2 Ruddy Turnstone
Eurasian Skylark
Linnet
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Meadow Pipit
White Wagtail
Stonechat
Common Kestrel

Asprokremnos Dam Canal 15-Feb
1 White Wagtail
1 Grey Wagtail
1 Black Redstart

Mandria
European Golden Plover
2 Red-throated Pipit
1 Water Pipit
Meadow Pipit
Skylark
Crested Lark
1 Merlin
1 Kentish Plover
Stonechat
Black Redstart
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Serin
Chaffinch
Linnet
Spanish Sparrow
House Sparrow
Blackcap
Sardinian Warbler
Zitting Cisticola
1 Marsh Harrier
1 Shag

Anarita Park
3 Cyprus Warbler (2f1m)
2 Bonelli's Eagle
2 Finsch's Wheatear
1 Zitting Cisticola
Corn Bunting
Woodlark
Sardinian Warbler
Chiffchaff

Timi
3 Barn Swallow

Paphos Sewage Plant
Spur-winged Lapwing
Meadow Pipit
Spanish Sparrow
Serin (inc 1 leucistic)
2 Cattle Egret
1 Sparrowhawk

Achelia Dam
2 House Martin
6 Crag Martin
1 Goshawk (m)

Anavargos Hills 20-Feb
1 Bonelli's Eagle (Juv)
1 Peregrine Falcon (mobbing Eagle)
1 Common Kestrel
Great Tit
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Serin
1 Siskin
Spanish Sparrow
Robin
Zitting Cisticola
Blackcap
Sardinian Warbler
Chiffchaff
3 Cyprus Warbler
1 Great Spotted Cuckoo
1 Dunnock
3 Scops Owls (calling)
Corn Bunting
1 Sparrowhawk
3 Blackbird
10+ Song Thrush
Woodlark
Crested Lark
Stonechat
Chukar
White Wagtail
1 Grey Wagtail (in the  road)

Anavargos 22-Feb
3 Great Spotted Cuckoo
1 Long-eared Owl (calling- seems very early)
1 Alpine Swift
1 Common Swift
3 House Martin

Mavrokolympus Dam 25-Feb
1 Great Crested Grebe
2 Little Grebe
1 Cormorant
1 Grey Heron
2 Cyprus Warbler
Stonechat
Black Redstart
Goldfinch
Linnet
Greenfinch
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    An experienced local birder and photographer (10+ years in Cyprus) who has a passion for all wildlife, avi-fauna in particular.


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