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May 17th, 2021

17/5/2021

 

Cyprus Bird Watching Tours - 2 Day tour Paphos and Akrotiri with Max 13+14/05/2021

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On the 13th Max and I set out for Akrotiri to do some general birding before venturing up to Troodos for a few target species; Dorothy's Short-toed Treecreeper, Cyprus Scops Owl and Red Crossbill.
Our first stop was the run off at the Salt Lake where there was a few waders to pick through. Oddly a few grey plovers were present in winter plumage among the many little stint and curlew sandpipers with a few ruff here and there. A big party of Little Terns were present with one displaying with a fish. Shortly after a White-winged Tern flew in and joined them. A pair of Sanderling were on one of the islands but seemingly disappeared by the time I put the scope in their direction. 
We then checked Zakaki marsh for Caspian reed warbler of which there was a few and a Night Heron flying over.
Next was the Gravel Pits where we was lucky to see a small party of very late Blue-cheeked Bee-eaters.
We then ventured to Akrotiri/phassouri Marsh which had good levels of life. A few marsh sandpiper and little stint were the highlights here, as well as glossy ibis, lesser grey shrike and black-winged stilt.
On the way to Troodos we checked a vinyard for Black-headed Bunting, of which there was a few on the wires.
Our first stop in Troodos at the meteorological site provided good views of jay, masked shrike and eastern olivaceous warbler.
Moving to livadi tou passia we got great views of a Red Crossbill family, Spotted Flycatcher, Coal Tit and our target Dorothy's Short-toed Treecreeper.
We checked a few nest boxes for Cyprus Scops Owl and although one was likely being used we didn't manage to see it.
​We finished the day with 76 Species  
Highlight from the second day in Paphos was seeing a Great Spotted Cuckoo in flight at a Bonelli's Eagle territory of which sadly seems to have been abandoned. A Peregrine Falcon on territory, hearing a few Cyprus Scops Owls close but sadly not getting any views, great views of multiple Little Bittern at a suspected nesting site, A Purple Heron, A late Greater Short-toed Lark and a stunning Collared Pratincole in pristine plumage bringing our two day total to 92 Species.
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Species List:

​Black Francolin    
Mallard    
Little Grebe
Greater Flamingo
Glossy Ibis
Black-crowned Night-heron
Squacco Heron
Cattle Egret
Little Egret
Common Kestrel   
Eleonora's Falcon  
Western Marsh Harrier  
Common Moorhen  
Common Coot
Black-winged Stilt 
Spur-winged Lapwing
Grey Plover
Common Ringed Plover 
Kentish Plover    
Marsh Sandpiper 
Common Greenshank 
Wood Sandpiper 
Sanderling 
Little Stint 
Curlew Sandpiper 
Ruff 
Yellow-legged Gull 
Little Tern     
White-winged Tern
Common Wood-pigeon   
European Turtle-dove
Eurasian Collared-dove
Laughing Dove
Alpine Swift   
Common Swift
Pallid Swift   
European Roller   
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
European Bee-eater   
Eurasian Hoopoe 
Lesser Grey Shrike
Masked Shrike 
Eurasian Golden Oriole
Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius glaszneri)   
Eurasian Magpie    
Eurasian Jackdaw   
Hooded Crow
Coal Tit (Parus ater cypriotes)
Great Tit (Parus major aphrodite)



Crested Lark (Galerida cristata cypriaca)  
Sand Martin
Barn Swallow 
Red-rumped Swallow   
Common House-martin    
Zitting Cisticola  
Cetti's Warbler
​​Eurasian Reed-warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus fuscus)
Eastern Olivaceous Warbler 
Sardinian Warbler
Eurasian Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes cypriotes)
Dorothy's (Short-toed) Treecreeper (Certhia brachydactyla dorotheae)
Eurasian Blackbird    
(h)Common Nightingale
Spotted Flycatcher
House Sparrow 
Yellow Wagtail (*M.f.thunbergii)   
Grey Wagtail 
Common Chaffinch 
European Serin 
European Greenfinch (Chloris chloris muehlei)  
European Goldfinch
Common Linnet
Red Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra guillemardi)
Corn Bunting
(h)Cretzschmar's Bunting 
Black-headed Bunting
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Great Spotted Cuckoo
Chukar (Alectoris chukar cypriotes)
Spanish Sparrow
Long-legged Buzzard
Whinchat
Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus brookei)
Rock Dove
(h) Cyprus Scops Owl
Little Owl
Eurasian Stone Curlew
Little Bittern
Purple Heron
Great Reed Warbler
(h)Sedge Warbler
Greater Short-toed Lark
Collared Pratincole

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