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September 26th, 2019

26/9/2019

 

Cyprus Bird Watching Tours - BIRD is the WORD - Akrotiri 25/09/2019 

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Collared Flycatcher - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
On the 25th I guided Paul and Fiana around the Akrotiri and Troodos sites.
We started at Phassouri Marsh car park where quite a bit was flying over, Garganey, Mallard, Grey Heron, Bee-eaters, Whiskered and White-winged Tern and various Egrets. A Whinchat was showing on the reeds nearby. We then ventured to the main hide, seeing a pair of Black Francolin crossing the road infront of us nice and slowly, providing great lengthy views.
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Black Francolin - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
Spur-winged Lapwing were showing on the ground and we had views of a Common Kingfisher and a Sedge Warbler. Glossy Ibis and Great Egret flew over and huge flocks of Mallard were coming down into the pool. We also had plenty of Turtle Doves flying over here. 
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Great White Egret - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
​On the other side of the marsh near the gravel pits there was only one Red-footed Falcon showing, a male though. 
We then checked out a Eucalyptus woodland for roosting raptors and only managed to see a single Honey Buzzard in the trees. Blackcap were calling and showing in the small bushes and plenty of Bee-eaters were perched in the trees.
We then ventured to the Salt Lake, seeing the many Flamingos and some Eleonora's Falcons hunting with some even sitting in some trees. We had a small party of Yellow Wagtail on a puddle and a juvenile Citrine Wagtail was among them. Plenty of Spectacled Warbler were showing in the bushes.  
Next stop was Kensington Cliffs, we was lucky to get a good kettle of Honey Buzzard as we arrived, also two Griffon Vultures were in the air, one being mobbed by plenty of Eleonora's Falcon, and we had an ellies meters away on the cliff too. The Green Turtle was still showing in the bay and as we left an Osprey flew over. 
We admired some of the pygmy carlinas and then proceeded up to the mountains. In Platres we had great views of two Cyprus Wheatear and I had distant views of Treecreepers though Paul and Fiana could not get on to them. Coal tit were showing well here too as well as our endemic Cyprus Grayling butterflies. At Livadi tou Passia we were treated to mouth watering close views of a female collared flycatcher (the first I had ever seen in Autumn) and close encounters with a Cyprus Jay and a very brief view of a wren. Colchicum Troodi was flowering in abundance here. 
We stopped to have our lunch and then left back to Limassol, seeing a stunning Masked Shrike and fleeting views of a Cyprus Warbler. We finished with 69 species for the day.
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Cyprus Jay - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
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Cyprus Jay - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
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Colchicum Troodi - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
Species List:

Chukar Partridge    
Black Francolin    
Mallard    
Garganey   
Greater Flamingo
Glossy Ibis
Cattle Egret
Grey Heron
Great Egret
Little Egret
European Shag  
Common Kestrel   
Red-footed Falcon    
Eleonora's Falcon  
Eurasian Hobby
Osprey
European Honey-buzzard
Griffon Vulture
Western Marsh Harrier  
Ring-tail Harrier  
Water Rail
Common Moorhen  
Common Coot
Spur-winged Lapwing
Common Snipe 
Yellow-legged Gull 
Slender-billed Gull 
Whiskered Tern
White-winged Tern
Rock Dove 
Common Wood-pigeon   
European Turtle-dove
Eurasian Collared-dove
Laughing Dove
Common Kingfisher
European Bee-eater   
Red-backed Shrike 
Masked Shrike 
Eurasian Jay   
Eurasian Magpie    
Eurasian Jackdaw   
Hooded Crow
Coal Tit
Great Tit
Crested Lark  
Barn Swallow 
Zitting Cisticola  
Sedge Warbler
Eurasian Reed-warbler
Eastern Olivaceous Warbler 
Willow Warbler 
Blackcap 
Sardinian Warbler
Cyprus Warbler 
Spectacled Warbler  
Eurasian Wren
Dorothy's (Short-toed) Treecreeper
Whinchat
Cyprus Wheatear
Spotted Flycatcher
Collared Flycatcher
House Sparrow 
Citrine Wagtail
Yellow Wagtail (*Flava) 
Black-headed Wagtail 
Tree Pipit 
Common Chaffinch 
European Greenfinch    
European Goldfinch
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Cyprus Grayling 
Large White
Painted Lady
Wall Brown
​Speckled Wood
African Grass Blue
Millet Skipper
Humingbird Hawkmoth

Lesser Emperor

Pygmy Carlina 
Colchicum Troodi

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