March 14th, 2016

Cyprus Bird watching Tours - BIRD is the WORD 3 Day Tour 10+12+14/03/16

Starting from the 10th of March I had the pleasure of Guiding Allen Rycroft around Paphos, Limassol and Larnaca. Allen is quite the birder with a very impressive British List. This was the first time he had bird-watched away from the UK and so managed to acquire many lifers and stated that he liked Cyprus so much he will return and work on his Cyprus List.
Allen was quite happy to take pictures of the birds from a distance with his very powerful bridge camera (2000mm equiv). 
The weather was great for all three tours aside a bit of rain on the last day as we approached Paphos. The winds weren't very favourable for migration but we still managed to see plenty of species.

Paphos Sewage Works 10-03-16
1 Cattle Egret
Great Tit
House Sparrow
Eurasian Collared Dove
Common Wood Pigeon
Eurasian Magpie
Hooded Crow
European Serin
1 European Stonechat
Meadow Pipit
Corn Bunting
3 Spur-winged Lapwing
White Wagtail
2 Common Kestrel
Zitting Cisticola
Common Chaffinch
European Greenfinch
Barn Swallow
Eurasian Blackcap (heard)
Song Thrush
2 Chukar Partridge
3 Cetti's Warbler (heard)

Achelia Dam
2 Little Grebe
1 Great Cormorant

Agia Varvara
2 Bonelli's Eagle (1 near adult, 1 Adult)
Barn Swallow
Red-Rumped Swallow
1 Common Swift
50+ European Serin
Northern House Martin
Crested Lark
Common Kestrel
1 Cretzschmar's Bunting
Eurasian Magpie
Hooded Crow
Eurasian Collared Dove

Anarita Park
Western Jackdaw
Hooded Crow
House Sparrow
3 Little Owl
European Goldfinch
Meadow Pipit
Red-throated Pipit (heard)
2 Northern Wheatears
Corn Bunting
Crested Lark
Sardinian Warbler
Zitting Cisticola
2 Chiffchaff
2 Common Quail (heard)
2 Blue Rock Thrush
1 Cyprus Wheatear
3 Cretzschmar's Bunting
1 Long-Legged Buzzard
Linnet
European Greenfinch
2 European Stonechat

Timi Beach
1 Whimbrel
4 Isabelline Wheatear
Meadow Pipit
1 Common Kestrel

Mandria
30+ Spanish Sparrow
Isabelline Wheatear
2 Little Ringed Plover
1 Black Francolin (heard)
Sardinian Warbler
1 European Shag

Asprokremnos Dam
1 Grey Wagtail
1 Common Kingfisher
Yellow-Legged Gull
2 Eurasian Hoopoe
Sardinian Warbler
1 Cyprus Warbler (f)
Alpine Swift
Red-Rumped Swallow
Northern House Martin
Barn Swallow
1 European Stonechat
3 Bonelli's Eagle
1 Little grebe
Great Cormorant
Corn Bunting
5 Grey Heron 
Common Kestrel
5+ Blue Rock Thrush
1 Song Thrush
1 Western Black Redstart
1 Cyprus Wheatear
2 Chukar Partridge
2 Mallard
200+ Grey Heron 

60 Species

Phassouri Bee-farm 12-03-16
1 Eurasian Hoopoe

Phassouri Marsh
2 European Stonechat
Zitting Cisticola
1 Western Black Redstart
White Wagtail
Moorhen
1 Garganey
Eurasian Reed Warbler (heard)
Cetti's Warbler
Eurasian Penduline Tit (heard)
Black Francolin (heard)
4+ Eurasian Blackcap
1 Song Thrush
1 Common Reed Bunting (heard)
Great Tit
Common Chaffinch
European Goldfinch
European Greenfinch
Hooded Crow
Eurasian Magpie
Euraisan Collared Dove
Common Wood Pigeon
Common Kestrel
Meadow Pipit

Akrotiri Gravel Pits
5 Grey Heron
2 Northern Lapwing
1 Common Buzzard
2 Western Marsh Harrier
Crested Lark
2 Northern Wheatear
4 Isabelline Wheatear
Barn Swallow
20+ Eurasian Penduline Tit
1 Song Thrush
1 Cyprus Wheatear

Akrotiri Salt Lake
1 Common Buzzard
House Sparrow
Crested Lark

Lady's Mile
7 Kentish Plover
4+ Common Redshank
1 Black-Tailed Godwit
2 Black-winged Stilts
Black-headed Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Armenian Gull
1 Ruppell's Warbler
7 Grey Heron
Crested Lark
2 Isabelline Wheatear 
2 Black Francolin (1 heard 1 seen)
1 Little Stint

Zakaki Marsh
Common Linnet
European Goldfinch
1 Green Sandpiper
Mallard
Little Grebe
Common teal
Common Coot
Common Moorhen
3 Ferruginous Duck
3 Black-headed Gulls
1 Sedge Warbler (heard)
Eurasian Reed Warbler
Eurasian Penduline Tit (heard)
White Wagtail
Cetti's Warbler

Limassol Port Canal
2 Laughing Dove
1 Eurasian Sparrowhawk (attacking laughing dove)
1 Little Egret
Eurasian Reed Warbler (heard)
Cetti's Warbler

Bishop's Pool
1 Eurasian Hoopoe
1 Common Pochard
Little Grebe
Common Teal
3 Northern Shoveller
1 Common Buzzard
1 Common Chiffchaff
1 Eurasian Wigeon
Cetti's Warbler

Kensington Cliffs
6-7 Eurasian Griffon Vulture
1 Peregrine Falcon (Brookei Race)
2 Common Kestrel
6 Chukar Partridge
Alpine Swift
Western Jackdaw
Yellow-Legged Gull
Sardinian Warbler

Mandria
1 Common Kestrel
1 Eastern Black-eared Wheatear
Sardinian Warbler
2 Ruppell's Warbler (1m1f)
Spanish Sparrow
1 Northern Wheatear
Isabelline Wheatear
Meadow Pipit
White Wagtail

66 Species

Menou Pools 14-04-16
6 Greater Flamingo
10+ Common Swift
4 Barn Swallow
2 Sand Martin
1 Common Kestrel
40+ Black-headed Gull
8+ Slender Billed Gull
50+ Black-Winged Stilt
2 Little Egret
2 Mallard
2 Eurasian Collared Dove

Larnaca Sewage Pools
1 Heuglins Gull
Northern Shoveller
Mallard
Common Teal
1 Northern Pintail
Little Grebe
Common Coot
3 Red-crested Pochard
1 Ruddy Shelduck
Greater Flamingo
Black-winged Stilt
5 Spur-winged Lapwing
Crested Lark
White Wagtail
House Sparrow
3 Meadow Pipit
1 Isabelline Wheatear
2 Northern Wheatear
4 European Stonechat
Zitting Cisticola
5+ Black Francolin

Larnaca Airport Fields South
15+ Yellow Wagtail
4 Crested Lark

Larnaca Salt Lake
6 Little-ringed Plover
30+ Common Redshank
2 Eurasian Stone Curlew
Greater Flamingo
Black-headed Gull
Common Shelduck
Black-winged Stilt

Oroklini Lake
Northern Shoveller
Mallard
Common Teal
Common Coot
Common Moorhen
Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Hooded Crow
1 Great Egret
Eurasian Reed Warbler
1 Willow Warbler
Cetti's Warbler
Barn Swallow
Common Swift
3 Western Marsh Harrier
6 Northern Pintail
2 Eurasian Wigeon
18 Black-winged Stilt
1 Black-tailed Godwit
5 Grey Heron
Greater Flamingo
1 Yellow Wagtail (m.f.flava)
White Wagtail
(1 (Probable) Baillon's Crake. Very small crake species in shade, seen for 5 seconds with naked eye - Eastern Pool)
1 Spectacled Warbler
1 Common Snipe (pool behind bridge)

Dolphin Rocks
4 Black-headed Gull

Kouklia
Western Jackdaw
Eurasian Magpie

Mandria
1 Yellow Wagtail (m.f.flava)
White Wagtail
Meadow Pipit
2 Corn Bunting
1 Eurasian Hoopoe
Great Tit
2 Common Chaffinch
2 Eurasian Stone Curlew
European Greenfinch
Common Linnet
Crested Lark
Common Wood Pigeon
2 Chukar Partridge
Eurasian Blackcap
Sardinian Warbler
Spanish Sparrow
1 Isabelline Wheatear
1 Namaqua Dove

67 Species.

Total: 103 Species.  

Allen Rycroft - up the clarets :D - Menous Pools, Larnaca

Alpine Swift - Tachymarptis melba Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Armenian Gull - Larus armenicus Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Black-winged Stilt - Himantopus himantopus + Black-tailed Godwit - Limosa limosa Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Common Chiffchaff - Phylloscopus collybita Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Eastern Black-Eared Wheatear (Dark throat) - Oenanthe hispanica melanoleuca Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Eastern Black-Eared Wheatear (Dark throat) - Oenanthe hispanica melanoleuca Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Eurasian Hoopoe - Upupa epops Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Greater Flamingo - Phoenicopterus roseus Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Grey Wagtail - Motacilla cinerea Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Eurasian Griffon Vulture - Gyps fulvus Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Eurasian Griffon Vulture - Gyps fulvus Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Kentish Plover - Charadrius alexandrinus Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Kentish Plover - Charadrius alexandrinus Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Laughing Dove - Spilopelia senegalensis Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Little-ringed Plover - Charadrius dubius Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Meadow Pipit - Anthus pratensis Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Namaqua Dove - Oena capensis Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Eurasian Penduline Tit - Remiz pendulinus Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Ruddy Shelduck - Tadorna ferruginea Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Rüppell's warbler - Sylvia rueppelli Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Song Thrush - Turdus philomelos Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Spur-winged Lapwing - Vanellus spinosus Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Whimbrel - Numenius phaeopus Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Blue-headed Wagtail - Motacilla flava flava Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Blue-headed Wagtail - Motacilla flava flava Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)

Zitting Cisticola - Cisticola juncidis Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith Some Rights Reserved (permissions granted to Allen Rycroft)