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March 31st, 2017

31/3/2017

 

Cyprus Bird watching Tours - BIRD is the WORD Tour, Paphos & Akrotiri 29/03/17

On the 29th I guided Sian around the sites of Paphos and Akrotiri. It gradually became harder to find birds throughout the day concerning the winds picking up speed but started off well enough for that not to matter. We started at the Sewage Works, en-route checking out the lower Ezousas river area of which we managed to spot European Turtle Dove in flight and also sitting on a wire and 2 Squacco Herons in a tree. All the usual's were at the Sewage Works. Anarita Park was booming with life, here we got exceptional views of Wryneck, Creztschmar's and Ortolan Bunting, Lesser Kestrels, Great Spotted Cuckoos, Tawny Pipits, Chukar, Northern, Isabelline, Eastern Black-eared and Cyprus Wheatears, Little Owl which Sian was particularly fond of, plus a young Bonelli's Eagle showed up just as we were leaving. Then on to Mandria where we had an extremely close encounter with a Male Hen Harrier and ridiculously close views of Eurasian Hoopoe probing and feeding on caterpillars next to the car which was the highlight of the tour. In Akrotiri, we stayed at Zakaki marsh for no more than 10 minutes due to how poor it was ... which was a bit of a let down concerning my past 3 visits there being so fruitful. We scouted Lady's Mile and the Salt Lake which again had a large amount of Waders on and finally some Slender-billed Gulls way in the distance. The Curlew seen there on the previous tour seemed to have been joined by two others, due to time management we didn't manage to scout through all of the waders, that and waders were Sian's least priority on the tour (aside Greater Flamingo of which there was no shortage of - of which we ate our lunch infront of). Whilst heading back to Paphos we stopped in at Kensington Cliffs for the Griffon Vultures, sadly none showed up, though we had good views of a Long-legged Buzzard and Peregrine Falcon in the area and some fleeting views of Cyprus Warbler singing whilst floating around in the air. A great tour providing great memories and another great species count - 80 (which I feel could have been much higher had it not been so windy).
Species:
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Mallard
Chukar
Black Francolin (heard)
Greater Flamingo
European Shag
Little Egret
Squacco Heron
Cattle Egret
Hen Harrier
Common Buzzard
Long-legged Buzzard
Bonelli's Eagle
Lesser Kestrel
Common Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Common Moorhen
Eurasian Coot
Spur-winged Lapwing
Little Ringed Plover
Kentish Plover
Black-winged Stilt
Eurasian Curlew
Green Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Little Stint
Dunlin
Ruff
Yellow-legged Gull
Caspian Gull
Armenian Gull
Baltic Gull
Black-headed Gull
Slender-billed Gull
Common Wood Pigeon
European Turtle Dove
Eurasian Collared Dove
Great Spotted Cuckoo
Little Owl
Alpine Swift
Common Swift
Eurasian Hoopoe
Eurasian Wryneck
Greater Short-toed Lark
Crested Lark
Barn Swallow
Red-rumped Swallow
House Martin
White Wagtail
Yellow Wagtail (Feldegg)
Tawny Pipit
Tree Pipit
Meadow Pipit
Red-throated Pipit 
Water Pipit (Heard)
Zitting Cisticola
Cetti's Warbler
Common Chiffchaff
Eurasian Blackcap
Lesser Whitethroat
Sardinian Warbler
Cyprus Warbler
Spectacled Warbler
Nightingale (heard)
European Stonechat
Northern Wheatear
Cyprus Wheatear
Eastern Black-eared Wheatear
Isabelline Wheatear
Great Tit
Magpie
Eurasian Jackdaw
Hooded Crow
Ortolan Bunting
Cretzschmar's Bunting
Corn Bunting
European Greenfinch
European Goldfinch
Common Linnet
European Serin (Heard)
House Sparrow
80
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