Cyprus Bird Watching Tours - BIRD is the WORD - Paphos. Half-day Tour 16/11/2019
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On the 16th I guided Matt and Hayley on a half day tour with Wallcreeper being the target species.
We set out to Avagas Gorge and was fortunate to see one of the Wallcreepers on the narrow part of the gorge quite low down. Further up there was two in flight but views here were distant.
A Long-legged Buzzard flew over putting up the Rock Doves, Feral Pigeons and Jackdaw. Blackcap and Robin were in most bushes and we had lengthy views of a Wren hopping under the low trees meters from us. Grey Wagtail were seen at various points along the river.
After some time we then ventured to Mavrokolympus Dam seeing quite a few Cyprus Warbler in the spiny shrub. A walk around the dam produced Woodlark, Sardinian Warbler, Little Grebe and some Spanish Sparrow.
We finished the day with 31 species.
Species List:
Little Grebe
Great Cormorant
Common Kestrel
Long-legged Buzzard
Yellow-legged Gull
Rock Dove
Common Wood-pigeon
Eurasian Collared-dove
Eurasian Magpie
Eurasian Jackdaw
Hooded Crow
Great Tit
Wood Lark
(h)Cetti's Warbler
Blackcap
Sardinian Warbler
Cyprus Warbler
Eurasian Wren
Wallcreeper
(h)Song Thrush
European Robin
Western Black Redstart
Common Stonechat
House Sparrow
Spanish Sparrow
White Wagtail
Grey Wagtail
Meadow Pipit
Common Chaffinch
European Greenfinch
European Goldfinch
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We set out to Avagas Gorge and was fortunate to see one of the Wallcreepers on the narrow part of the gorge quite low down. Further up there was two in flight but views here were distant.
A Long-legged Buzzard flew over putting up the Rock Doves, Feral Pigeons and Jackdaw. Blackcap and Robin were in most bushes and we had lengthy views of a Wren hopping under the low trees meters from us. Grey Wagtail were seen at various points along the river.
After some time we then ventured to Mavrokolympus Dam seeing quite a few Cyprus Warbler in the spiny shrub. A walk around the dam produced Woodlark, Sardinian Warbler, Little Grebe and some Spanish Sparrow.
We finished the day with 31 species.
Species List:
Little Grebe
Great Cormorant
Common Kestrel
Long-legged Buzzard
Yellow-legged Gull
Rock Dove
Common Wood-pigeon
Eurasian Collared-dove
Eurasian Magpie
Eurasian Jackdaw
Hooded Crow
Great Tit
Wood Lark
(h)Cetti's Warbler
Blackcap
Sardinian Warbler
Cyprus Warbler
Eurasian Wren
Wallcreeper
(h)Song Thrush
European Robin
Western Black Redstart
Common Stonechat
House Sparrow
Spanish Sparrow
White Wagtail
Grey Wagtail
Meadow Pipit
Common Chaffinch
European Greenfinch
European Goldfinch
31
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