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April 24th, 2019

24/4/2019

 

Cyprus Bird Watching Tours - BIRD is the WORD - Half-day Tour - Paphos 23/04/2019

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Red Footed Falcon (f) - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
On the 23rd I guided Pat and Les around the Paphos sites for a half-day tour.
We started out at the Paphos Sewage Plant where we managed great views of Barn Swallows, Red-rumped Swallows and Sand Martins perched and feeding over the alfalfa fields accompanied by Common Swifts. A Masked Shrike showed well as did some Common Whitethroat, a Northern Wheatear and our target here; The Spur-winged lapwings were meters from the car and a favourite species for the day. We had small groups of Purple Heron migrating overhead at a few times and also a surprise Great Spotted Cuckoo, presumably one about to leave the island as this is not their habitat.

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Purple Heron - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
As we were heading to Agia Varvara I noticed a Red-footed Falcon hovering over a field in Acheleia, so we parked to watch the female for a lengthy time at close range and even put up a Stone Curlew. Next stop was Agia Varvara where we was greeted at the entrance by a Woodchat Shrike in the same bush I had seen one on my previous few tours. Leading to the pools we had a Chukar on the pathway and a Purple Heron. On the pools we had a few Great Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler and Reed Warbler plus a Squacco Heron showing nicely. At least 7 Wood Sandpiper were in the pools, and countless whinchats in the area. Sadly all the crakes seemed to have left the area, and the Little Bittern didn't show itself. As we were leaving the site a Golden Oriole darted out of a tree and flew into an orchard. 
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Purple Heron - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
We then ventured to Asprokremnos Car park in hope of some flycatchers where we only managed to see a single male Collared Flycatcher and not much else so we moved on quickly just sweeping past the village of Mandria for some Laughing dove on the way to Timi. 
At Timi we had great views of Common and Wood Sandpiper, various Yellow-wagtails, Little and Cattle Egret, Glossy Ibis, Spotted, Pied and a single Semi-collared Flycatcher and also we had a Heuglin's Gull fly along the coast and a smart male Common Redstart meters from the car. We finished the half-day managing 60 species. 
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Blue-headed Wagtail - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
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Spotted Flycatcher - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
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Common Sandpiper - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
Species List:

Chukar Partridge    
(h)Black Francolin    
Glossy Ibis
Squacco Heron
Cattle Egret
Grey Heron
Purple Heron
Little Egret
Common Kestrel   
Red-footed Falcon    
Common Moorhen  
Eurasian Stone Curlew 
Spur-winged Lapwing
Wood Sandpiper 
Common Sandpiper 
Heuglin's (Siberian) Gull 
Yellow-legged Gull 
Common Wood-pigeon   
European Turtle-dove
Eurasian Collared-dove
Laughing Dove
Great Spotted Cuckoo
Common Swift
Woodchat Shrike 
Masked Shrike 
Eurasian Golden Oriole

Eurasian Magpie    
Eurasian Jackdaw   
Hooded Crow
Great Tit
Crested Lark  
Sand Martin
Barn Swallow 
Red-rumped Swallow   
Common House-martin    
Zitting Cisticola  
(h)Cetti's Warbler
(h)Savi's Warbler
(h)Sedge Warbler
Eurasian Reed-warbler
Great Reed-warbler
Blackcap 
Common Whitethroat
Sardinian Warbler
(h)Common Nightingale
Common Redstart
Whinchat
Northern Wheatear 
Spotted Flycatcher
European Pied Flycatcher
Collared Flycatcher
Semi-collared Flycatcher
House Sparrow 
Spanish Sparrow    
White Wagtail
Yellow Wagtail (Flava, Thunbergii)   
Black-headed Wagtail 
Tree Pipit 
European Greenfinch    
European Goldfinch

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