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March 09th, 2019

9/3/2019

 

Cyprus Bird Watching Tours - BIRD is the WORD - Half day Tour - Paphos 08/03/2019

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Corn Bunting - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
On the 8th I guided Lesley and Bill around the Paphos sites for a half day tour. 
We started at the Paphos Headland for Greater Sand Plover, seeing a very smart adult male Wheatear in the car park en-route. We arrived at the corner point, and spotted a Little Ringed Plover near the sea. The Greater Sand Plover were on the south side of the point and all in a line. Their plumage had advanced quite a bit since last seeing them, they were looking very smart. One of them seemed quite small in comparison to the others and also had a bit of an odd white eye ring, maybe a different race. A Golden Plover was staying close to them with some black on the breast starting to show. They got rattled and flew further back along the coast and joined a single Turnstone. As we walked back we was treated to great close views of Red-throated Pipit, some with great plumage, and also a Corn Bunting landed next to us and foraged through the vegetation some meters away. I heard a Great Spotted Cuckoo call from the archaeological grounds, and soon enough I managed to locate it and get it on the scope. Then a Red-rumped Swallow flew low over us providing great views, result!
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Greater Sand Plover - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
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Red-throated Pipit - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
Our next site was the sewage plant for Spur-winged Lapwings. We must have seen about 20 of them, with two that briefly copulated infront of the car. A Hoopoe showed well under some olive trees in a tiny patch of sunlight shining through, just meters from the car. A huge flock of Serin was moving around the alfalfa fields, flocks of well over 100 each. As we approached the plant, there was a few birds around a puddle, a Song Thrush and a Bluethroat! As we approached the puddle the Bluethroat darted off not to be seen again, though we heard its calls. A water pipit landed infront of the puddle with a red-throated pipit briefly.
Our last site was anarita park for Finsch's Wheatear, which we got great views of and also the Little Owl posed nicely on the rocks and we had another fly by infront of us. We got some great views of Cyprus Warbler, both male and female, though we couldn't locate the chukar that were calling. We did get a great view of a Sling-tailed agama sunning itself on a rock.
A very productive half day tour totaling 51 Species.
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Sling-tailed Agama - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
Species List:
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(h) Chukar Partridge    
Cattle Egret
Great Cormorant   
Common Kestrel   
Spur-winged Lapwing
Eurasian Golden Plover
Little Ringed Plover   
Greater Sand Plover
Yellow-legged Gull 
Common Wood-pigeon   
Eurasian Collared-dove
Great Spotted Cuckoo
Little Owl   
Common Swift
Eurasian Hoopoe 
Eurasian Magpie    
Eurasian Jackdaw   
Hooded Crow
Great Tit
Crested Lark  
Wood Lark
Eurasian Skylark
Sand Martin 
Barn Swallow 
Red-rumped Swallow   
Common House-martin


Zitting Cisticola    
Cetti's Warbler
Common Chiffchaff 
Blackcap 
Sardinian Warbler
Cyprus Warbler 
Song Thrush   
European Robin
Bluethroat
Western Black Redstart
Common Stonechat
Northern Wheatear 
Finsch's Wheatear 
Isabelline Wheatear
House Sparrow 
Spanish Sparrow    
White Wagtail
Meadow Pipit 
Red-throated Pipit
Water Pipit
Common Chaffinch 
European Serin 
European Greenfinch    
European Goldfinch
Corn Bunting

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