Just got back from another great trip to Cyprus in the company of Matthew Strahan and Eric Buckley. The weather was in the twenties all week but there were a few days that were windy.
A full list of birds seen below, day first seen next to name, number of birds seen not counted:
Day One Mandria, Phaphos Sewage Works, Nata, Anarita Park Alpine Swift 1 Barn Swallow 1 Black Francolin 1 Black-billed Magpie 1 Blackcap 1 Black-eared Wheatear 1 Black-headed Wagtail (Feldegg) 1 Black-headed Wagtail (Superciliaris) 1 Blue-headed Wagtail (Flava) 1 Caspian Plover 1 Cetti's Warbler 1 Chukar 1 Common Cuckoo 1 Common Kestrel 1 Common Linnet 1 Common Nightingale 1 Common Swift 1 Common Wood Pigeon 1 Corn Bunting 1 Crested Lark 1 Cyprus Warbler 1 Cyprus Wheatear 1 Dotterel 1 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler 1 Eurasian Collared Dove 1 Eurasian Jackdaw 1 Eurasian Marsh Harrier 1 Eurasian Stone Curlew 1 European Goldfinch 1 European Greenfinch 1 European Roller 1 European Shag 1 European Turtle Dove 1 Glossy Ibis 1 Great Spotted Cuckoo 1 Great Tit 1 Greater Short-toed Lark 1 Grey-headed Wagtail (Thunbergi) 1 Hobby 1 Hooded Crow 1 Hoopoe 1 House Martin 1 House Sparrow 1 Isabelline Wheatear 1 Lesser Grey Shrike 1 Lesser Kestrel 1 Lesser Whitethroat 1 Little Egret 1 Little Owl 1 Little-ringed Plover 1 Long-legged Buzzard 1 Montagu's Harrier 1 Northern Wheatear 1 Ortolan Bunting 1 Osprey 1 Red-backed Shrike 1 Red-rumped Swallow 1 Red-throated Pipit 1 Rock Dove 1 Sardinian Warbler 1 Sedge Warbler 1 Spanish Sparrow 1 Spectacled Warbler 1 Spur-winged Lapwing 1 Squacco Heron 1 Tawny Pipit 1 Whinchat 1 White Wagtail 1 Wood Sandpiper 1 Woodchat Shrike 1 Yellow-legged Gull 1 Zitting Cisticola 1
Day Two Phissouri Reed bed, Akritiri Gravel pits, Bishops Pool, Lady's Mile, Zakiki Marsh Armenian Gull 2 Baltic Gull 2 Black-crowned Night Heron 2 Black-headed Gull 2 Black-tailed Godwit 2 Black-winged Stilt 2 Caspian Gull 2 Collared Flycatcher 2 Common Coot 2 Common Greenshank 2 Common Kingfisher 2 Common Moorhen 2 Common Redshank 2 Common Sandpiper 2 Common Snipe 2 Eleonora's Falcon 2 Eurasian Reed Warbler 2 Eurasian Wryneck 2 European Bee-eater 2 Ferruginous Duck 2 Garganey 2 Greater Flamingo 2 Green Sandpiper 2 Kentish Plover 2 Little Bittern 2 Little Grebe 2 Little Stint 2 Mallard 2 Marsh Sandpiper 2 Northern Shoveler 2 Peregrine Falcon 2 Pied Flycatcher 2 Purple Heron 2 Ruff 2 Slender-billed Gull 2 Yellow Wagtail(Flavissima) 2
Day Three Troudos Mountain Blackbird 3 Chaffinch 3 Coal Tit 3 Common Crossbill 3 Cretzschmar's Bunting 3 Eurasian Griffon 3 Eurasian Jay 3 European Serin 3 Hawfinch 3 Masked Shrike 3 Northern Wren 3 Pallid Swift 3 Short-toed Treecreeper 3
Day Four Mandria, Phaphos Sewage Works, Aspro Dam Common Whitethroat 4 Pallid Harrier 4
Day Five Phissouri Reed Bed, Lady's Mile, Zakiki Marsh, Larnaka Salt Pans and sewage works, Oriklini Lake Blue-headed Wagtail (Beema) 5 Cattle Egret 5 Common Quail 5 Curlew Sandpiper 5 Great White Egret 5 Little Gull 5 Little Tern 5 Red-crested Pochard 5 Red-necked Phalarope 5 Ringed Plover 5 Sand Martin 5 Whiskered Tern 5
Day Six Polis, Menthis Hills, Everatou Dam Common Chiffchaff 6 Common Tern 6 Grey Heron 6 Red-footed Falcon 6
Day Seven Mandria, Anarita Park Dunlin 7 Eurasian Spoonbill 7
We missed a few birds that were reported present during our trip: White-throated Robin Black-bellied Sand Grouse Great Snipe
Regards
Russell Hayes
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