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March 19th, 2017

19/3/2017

 

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. 

 
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
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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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Brian Bone
22/3/2017 13:14:18

Hi Matt,
Thanks so much for a fantastic day's birding in very pleasant company. We shared a few laughs, saw some great birds and a bit of wacky behaviour thrown in. A grand day out. The chukar walking to the theme of the Pink Panther will be a lasting memory.
Brian


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