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March 27th, 2019

27/3/2019

 

Cyprus Bird Watching Tours - BIRD is the WORD - Half day Tour - Paphos 26/03/201

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Little Owl - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
On the 26th I had the pleasure of guiding Dave Dimmock arouond the Paphos sites for a half day tour. I did a tour last year for Dave also which was very productive.
We started out a Timi beach seeing a Common Buzzard enroute. There was plenty of Lesser Whitethroats in every bush and we managed to located a few Ruppell's and Eastern Subalpine Warblers among them. There wasn't much on the water aside a few Little Egrets and a Black-crowned Night Heron flying above being harassed by a hoody.
Eastern Black-eared Wheatears were absolutely everywhere again, enabling some really good views, and more Northern Wheatears had turned up.
Just as we was leaving a Little Ringed Plover flew in and we heard the call of a Spur-winged Lapwing, but was unable to see it.
We then headed to Mandria and did a quick sweep through. It was also teeming with warblers, Eastern Subalpine, Ruppell's Warbler, Lesser and Common Whitethroat and also an Eastern Oprhean Warbler. Tawny Pipit and various Wheatears were in the sand bowl as well as Hoopoe's. We also saw a Crested lark gathering nesting material and being guarded by her mate. A quail called from near us in the dense barley and Black Francolin called too from a distance.
We located a Stone Curlew showing well in the western field and a surprise Northern Lapwing flew over the car.
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Tawny Pipit - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
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Tawny Pipit - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
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Crested Lark - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
A quick check at Aspro Dam car park produced a Common Redstart and Black Redstart plus many Alpine Swift low overhead.
Next stop was Anarita Park where we got fantastic photo opportunities with a Cyprus Wheatear and also a pair of Little Owls sat next to each other. Cretzschmar's Bunting also showed well next to the car. The Great Spotted Cuckoos showed well also flying around, perching and being very vocal.
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Cyprus Wheatear - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
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Eastern Black-eared Wheatear - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
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Eurasian Hoopoe - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
Now knowing that Dave is a Peregrine Falcon guard in the UK I asked if he wanted to visit a site to see our Mediterranean Sub-species. Ofcourse!
So we finished the day watching the Peregrines bring food back to their territory, and also seeing a Cyprus Scops Owl in the foothills...which more than made up for the fact the Cyprus Warblers weren't showing. A super half day tour producing a record breaking 68 species.
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Peregrine Falcon - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
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Cyprus Scops Owl - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
Species List:

Chukar Partridge (a.c.cypriotes)   
(h)Black Francolin    
(h)Common Quail 
Black-crowned Night-heron
Little Egret
European Shag  (p.a.desmarestii)
Common Kestrel   
Peregrine Falcon (f.p.brookei)
Common Buzzard
Eurasian Stone Curlew 
Northern Lapwing
(h)Spur-winged Lapwing
Little Ringed Plover 
(h)Green Sandpiper
Yellow-legged Gull 
Common Wood-pigeon   
Eurasian Collared-dove
Laughing Dove
Great Spotted Cuckoo
Cyprus Scops Owl
Little Owl
Alpine Swift   
Common Swift
Eurasian Hoopoe 
Eurasian Magpie    
Eurasian Jackdaw   
Hooded Crow
Great Tit (p.m.aphrodite)
Greater Short-toed Lark
Crested Lark  (g.c.cypriaca)
Sand Martin
Barn Swallow 
Red-rumped Swallow   
Common House-martin    
Zitting Cisticola  
Cetti's Warbler
Willow Warbler 
Common Chiffchaff 
Blackcap 
Common Whitethroat
Lesser Whitethroat 
Eastern Orphean Warbler 
Rueppell's Warbler
Sardinian Warbler
Eastern Subalpine Warbler
Song Thrush   
European Robin
(h)Common Nightingale
Western Black Redstart
Common Redstart
Common Stonechat
Northern Wheatear 
Eastern Black-eared Wheatear
Cyprus Wheatear
Isabelline Wheatear
House Sparrow 
Spanish Sparrow    
White Wagtail
Yellow Wagtail (Flava))   
Black-headed Wagtail 
Tawny Pipit  
Meadow Pipit 
Red-throated Pipit
European Greenfinch (c.c.muehlei)     
European Goldfinch

Common Linnet
Corn Bunting
Cretzschmar's Bunting 
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