Cyprus Bird watching Tours - BIRD is the WORD Tour, Paphos 18/03/17
On the 18th March I had the good fortune of guiding Brian Bone around Paphos. Brian is a well traveled birder, who concentrates on bird watching and videography so the tour was needing to be a slightly different style to allow for good video moments. Brian was a big fan of studying bird behaviour and the irony of that was the birds were acting very strange that day. Blue Rock Thrush were following us around, a chukar was tip-toeing across the road, a Cyprus Warbler would fly a mile away and leave its territory and return amongst many other strange occurrences, which provided great observation and quite a laugh too.
Brian had a lot of target species, many of which were not possible at this time but all others met aside Cyprus Wheatear, Long-legged Buzzard and Bonelli's Eagle oddly enough.
Highlights were coming across a staggering 19 Eurasian Hoopoe with some very very close encounters, my first Eastern Subalpine Warbler of the year, We had 3 male Ruppell's Warblers, A Western Marsh Harrier at nearly every site providing superb views, A Male Hen Harrier hunting a newly cut field, A Common Buzzard being viciously mobbed by Hooded Crows and also superb views of Cyprus Warbler, 4 Great Spotted Cuckoo, 4 Blue Rock Thrush, A Peregrine Falcon on territory, a Slender Billed Gull perched near Black-winged Stilts at the beach and 2 Eastern Black-eared Wheatears.
Brian had a lot of target species, many of which were not possible at this time but all others met aside Cyprus Wheatear, Long-legged Buzzard and Bonelli's Eagle oddly enough.
Highlights were coming across a staggering 19 Eurasian Hoopoe with some very very close encounters, my first Eastern Subalpine Warbler of the year, We had 3 male Ruppell's Warblers, A Western Marsh Harrier at nearly every site providing superb views, A Male Hen Harrier hunting a newly cut field, A Common Buzzard being viciously mobbed by Hooded Crows and also superb views of Cyprus Warbler, 4 Great Spotted Cuckoo, 4 Blue Rock Thrush, A Peregrine Falcon on territory, a Slender Billed Gull perched near Black-winged Stilts at the beach and 2 Eastern Black-eared Wheatears.
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Species:
Island Chukar Common Quail (heard) Common Buzzard Western Marsh Harrier Hen Harrier Eurasian Sparrowhawk Common kestrel Peregrine Falcon Common Moorhen Spur-winged Lapwing European Golden Plover Black-winged Stilt Green Sandpiper Yellow-legged Gull Slender-billed Gull Common Wood pigeon Eurasian Collared Dove Great Spotted Cuckoo Alpine Swift Common Swift Eurasian Hoopoe Crested Lark Woodlark Barn Swallow Red-rumped Swallow Common house Martin White Wagtail Yellow Wagtail Meadow Pipit Red-throated pipit Water Pipit Song Thrush Zitting Cisticola Cetti's Warbler Common Chiffchaff Eurasian Blackcap Lesser Whitethroat Ruppell's Warbler Eastern Subalpine Warbler Sardinian Warbler Cyprus Warbler Spectacled Warbler Blue Rock Thrush European Robin Common Nightingale Bluethroat Western Black redstart European Stonechat Northern Wheatear Eastern Black-eared Wheatear Finsch's Wheatear Isabelline Wheatear Great Tit Woodchat Shrike Magpie Eurasian Jackdaw Hooded Crow Cretzschmar's Bunting Corn Bunting Common Chaffinch European Greenfinch Eurasian Siskin European Goldfinch Common Linnet European Serin House Sparrow Spanish Sparrow 68 |
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Sites Visited:
Anarita Park, Agia Varvara, Paphos Sewage Plant, Timi Beach, Episcopi Paphos, Asprokremnos Dam, Anarita Masts, Mandria, Kouklia. |
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