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April 20th, 2018

20/4/2018

 

Cyprus Bird Watching Tours - BIRD is the WORD Tour 16/04/2018 Paphos

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Little Crake (f) - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
On the 16th I had the pleasure of Guiding April and Ian around the Paphos sites. There was only one target species: European Roller. We managed to find 4 during the tour with some good photo opportunities. We were even treated to one feeding another.
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Eastern Black-eared Wheatear (f) - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
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European Turtle Dove - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
​Highlight species were a female Pallid Harrier, Peregrine Falcon on territory with a Cyprus Scops Owl heard nearby, 4 Collared Pratincole flying low over Mandria for most of the time we spent there, Red-rumped Swallow coming down for nesting mud and a female Little Crake.
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Peregrine Falcon - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
Species:

​Black Francolin 
Northern Pintail
Little Grebe
Grey Heron
Little Egret
European Shag
Common Kestrel 
Peregrine Falcon
Pallid Harrier 
Steppe Buzzard
Long-legged Buzzard    
Little Crake
Common Moorhen  
Spur-winged Lapwing
Collared Pratincole   
Yellow-legged Gull   
Baltic Gull
Common Wood-pigeon   
European Turtle-dove 
Eurasian Collared-dove
Cyprus Scops Owl (h) 
Common Swift
European Roller  
Eurasian Hoopoe
Eurasian Magpie 
Eurasian Jackdaw 
Hooded Crow


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Red-rumped Swallow - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
Great Tit (P.m.aphrodite)
Greater Short-toed Lark
Crested Lark  
Barn Swallow 
Red-rumped Swallow 
Common House-martin   

Zitting Cisticola 
Cetti's Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Eurasian Reed-warbler
Great Reed-warbler
Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
Blackcap
Sardinian Warbler
Cyprus Warbler 
Whinchat 
Northern Wheatear
Eastern Black-eared Wheatear
Cyprus Wheatear 
Isabelline Wheatear
House Sparrow
Spanish Sparrow 
White Wagtail
Yellow Wagtail   
Red-throated Pipit
European Greenfinch   
European Goldfinch
Common Linnet
Corn Bunting
Ortolan Bunting 
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