Observers: Owen
Foley, Conor Foley and Donal Foley
Text
and Photos: Owen Foley
09/04/2007
– 17/04/2007
We
flew out from Gatwick on the 8th of April, flying into Paphos
airport. Using the Paphos area as a base, we hired a car to reach a number
of other areas including the Akhamas peninsula, Akrotiri salt lake and
Phassouri reed beds, Larnaca salt pools and the Troodos Mountains.
Car rental equated to just 30 Euros a day for a 1.3 Litre 4 Wheel
Drive Suzuki Swift. Accommodation equated to just 22 Euros per night B+B.
Day
1. Paphos Headland and nearby areas.
Early
morning at Paphos produced a wide variety of birds. A fortunate wrong turn
brought us first to the harbour, where a stunning Pied
Kingfisher was our first tick of the trip, feeding from the mooring
lines of the many boats in the harbour
Moving
on to the beach, our next tick was an Isabelline Wheatear amongst the many Black eared and Northern
Wheatears feeding on the flat rocky areas. Scopoli’s
Shearwaters moved in small numbers offshore and visible migration was
quite obvious, with many Yellow
wagtails (of several different races) present on the beach and nearby
fields. The calls of both Tree
and Red Throated Pipits were constantly heard over head.
Also calling obviously were the many Black
Francolins present in the scrub, a piercing call, somewhat a mix
between that of a pheasant and a rooster.
In amongst the small groups of Ortolan
Buntings on the headland were one or two Cretzschmars
Buntings.
Ortolan
Bunting
Cretzschmars
Bunting
Crested Lark
Nightingales
were obvious in their abundance, both calling plaintively from vegetation
and flicking across the pathways. The scrub also held a large fall of Blackcaps
and numerous Sardinian Warblers, Whitethroats, Lesser
Whitethroats and the odd Wryneck
and Woodchat Shrike. Also seen here were our first Eastern Black Eared Wheatears, favouring the ruins on the headland. Swallows,
both Barn and Red Rumped, flew
low around the headland with the many Martins
and Swifts, which included Common,
Pallid and Alpine Swifts.
Nightingale
Sardinian
Warbler (Female), Owen Foley, Paphos.
After
a productive morning on the headland we moved on to near by Paphos
sewerage plant which produced 8 adult Spur winged Plovers as well as numerous Wood Sandpipers, Ruff and
several Little Stints. An
adult Masked Shrike flew in
front of the car at a nearby dry riverbed, giving good views.
Nearby
Asprokremnos Dam produced the endemic Cyprus Wheatear, and Cyprus
Warbler, as well as Little Owl,
a Juvenile Night Heron, Purple
Heron, Marsh Harrier and a few Chukars,
their throaty call echoing down the valley.
A couple of hunters in the area were, to our relief, not after the
birds, but where instead after snakes....namely the quite venomous (and
disturbingly large) Blunt Nosed
Viper...Okay...so maybe not much better conservation wise...but at
least they weren’t flushing birds on us.
Cyprus
Wheatear
Cyprus
Warbler-
Chukar
Day
2. Akrotiri Salt Lake and adjacent marshes.
45
minutes from Paphos, the Akrotiri peninsula, just a few miles south of
Limmasol, is a fantastically rich area for a variety of bird species.
However Cyprus has been in quite a drought over the past few years, with
many dams in the country being dry as a bone.
As a result the nearby marshes were, save for Phassouri reed bed,
quite barren of birdlife.
Phassouri,
despite being drier than in normal years, held a fantastic array of
species, including Glossy Ibis,
Cattle Egret, Squacco Heron, Ferruginous Duck, Garganey, Yellow Wagtail,
Black Winged Stilt, Wood Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Little Stint,
Curlew Sandpiper. Whilst watching a Water
Pipit on a nearby reedmass, an adult male Little
Crake emerged into the open giving stunning views. Numerous Marsh
Harriers, Common Buzzards and Common
Kestrels hunted over the reed beds.
We
then moved on to the nearby Kensington cliffs, a breeding site for both Eleonoras
Falcon and Griffon Vulture.
Both of these species, were yet to be present in numbers and none were
seen whilst we were there, however a fantastic adult Black
Vulture rose off the Cliffs and afforded good views. Numerous Alpine Swifts were also present here, screaming past just inches
from our heads.
We
also saw our first Roller of
the trip, typically, on overhead wires by the roadside, a truly stunning
bird.
Day
3. The Akhamas Peninsula.
We
began the day at the famous Baths of Aphrodite, a noted migration watch
point where birds feed up before making the crossing to Turkey. A Wood
Warbler showed well at the entrance to the caravan park, with the
almost acrocephalus sounding song of Masked
Shrike echoing around the groves.
Masked
Shrike
It
was here we encountered our first Eastern
Bonellis Warbler of the trip. Further up the hill at Symies track, the
buzzing song of the Cyprus Wheatear
resounded around the hills, with the water troughs in this area, the only
source of water for birds to drink, producing both male Collared
and Semi-Collared Flycatchers
(along with Pied Flycatcher)
and yet more Eastern Bonellis
Warblers.
We
then moved back south to Cape Drepanum, (seeing an Adult Long
Legged Buzzard along the way) where we saw numerous Greater
Short Toed Larks, Yellow Wagtails, with more Black
Eared Wheatears and an Isabelline
Wheatear.
Corn
Bunting
European
Roller
Day
4. Larnaca salt marshes.
Two
hours from Paphos, beside Larnaca airport, are a number of very productive
salt pools. A few hours driving around these produced Spectacled
Warbler, Marsh Sandpiper, Spotted Redshank, Greater
Flamingo, Slender Billed Gull,
Little Gull and Greater Sandplover.
Spectacled
Warbler
Greater
Sandplover
A
nearby marsh at Oirilinki, not described in any of the texts, produced
several more Marsh Sandpipers with
other waders such as Ruff, Little
Stint, Wood and Green
Sandpipers, numerous Black
Winged Stilts and Glossy Ibis
and a surprise 1st year Common
Crane. Passerines here included Yellow
Wagtails, Spectacled Warbler, Great
spotted Cuckoo and Hoopoe.
Day
5. Paphos, Mandria and
Phassouri Reed Beds.
The
early morning at Paphos produced yet more new trip birds such as a migrant
Blue Rock Thrush at the ruins
of Dionysus. Flocks of herons migrating included 25 Night Herons and several Squacco
Herons. Several Woodchat
Shrikes (of the races Senator
and Niloticus) afforded good
views, whilst Sardinian and Subalpine Warblers were
in strong numbers in the scrub of the headland with a few Wrynecks mixed in for good measure.
Mandria
Beach produced yet more Greater
Short Toed Larks and Red Throated
Pipits, with good numbers of Eastern
Black Eared Wheatears and a pair of Isabelline
Wheatears.
The
evening was spent at Phassouri Reed Beds, were numerous waders fed in
close proximity, including Marsh
and Wood Sandpipers, Ruff, Little
Stint, Spotted Redshank and Common
Redshank, Black Tailed Godwit and
Little Ringed Plover. Reed,
Great Reed and Sedge Warblers
flitted around the reed stems and many Little
Crakes emerged to feed. Heron species included Purple
Heron, Night Heron, Grey Heron,
Squacco Heron, Little Egret and Cattle
Egret. Yellow Wagtails
arrived to roost in the evening, with Citrine
Wagtail being heard at this site also.
Blue
Rock Thrush
Day 6. Troodos Mountains
The
Troodos Mountains occupy a large portion of the centre of the island of
Cyprus, and provide the best opportunity for seeing Bonelli’s
Eagle and the scarce Imperial
Eagle, as well as the endemic races of Jay,
Coal Tit, Wren and Short Toed
Tree Creeper. The woodlands around the village of Troodos (some two
thousand meters above sea level and still emerging from the winter snow)
provided these endemics easily with all but wren being easily seen. The Coal
Tit in particular was remarkably different from our own. Several stake
outs for Raptors failed to produce either eagle and we returned to the
lower sections of the island.
Asprokremnos
dam held Osprey and Gull
Billed Tern as well as a migrating Steppe
Buzzard. Several Rollers
were seen on telegraph wires along the way.
Day
7. Phassouri Reed beds and Akrotiri.
An
early morning trip to Phassouri Reed Beds produced a stunning Baillons
Crake and over 20 Little Crakes.
Several Eastern Black Eared
Wheatears and an Isabelline
Wheatear were at the nearby gravel pits, with Spectacled Warbler, Lesser
Whitethroat, Common Redstart,
Pied Flycatcher and other
common migrants also in this area. A ring tail Pallid
Harrier was at nearby Lady’s mile.
Baillons
crake
Upon
returning to Phassouri, 2 Blue Cheeked Bee eaters began feeding over the
marsh, truly stunning birds and easily the bird of the trip for me. These
birds gave stunning views for over half an hour.
Returning
towards Paphos, Mandria Beach played host to four migrating Red
Footed Falcons (3 adult males and an adult female), with a flock of 14
Eurasian Spoonbills moving offshore.
Red
Footed Falcon (Male)
Day
8. Akhamas Peninsula.
An
early morning trip to the Akhamas peninsula began at Symies track,
producing an extremely obliging Eastern
Olivaceous Warbler drinking from the troughs and allowing excellent
views from the car. Ortolan
Buntings were again in strong numbers with several parties sitting in
trees around the area. A pair
of Goshawk afforded good views moving up the valley with a Hobby
moving through the area also.
The
Polis area nearby produced yet more Rollers, with a pair affording excellent views just overhead on
wires in breeding habitat.
The
Evretou Dam produced more Chukar
and Great Spotted Cuckoo, with
a Calidus race Perigrine Falcon
hunting the area, eventually harassing an adult Bonellis
Eagle, a long awaited tick for me. The lower end of the dam produced
another Ringtail Pallid Harrier
and an adult male Red Footed Falcon,
along with more Corn Bunting, Black Headed Wagtail and Flava
Wagtails and our only Little
Bittern of the trip, a stunning male.
The
return trip to Mandria produced several more Rollers
as well as 3 Long Legged Buzzards
and a male Red Footed Falcon.
Mandria itself had obvious migration underway, with over a dozen Purple Herons roosting in crop fields. A female Marsh
Harrier passed close by, with many Eastern
Black Eared Wheatears in the fields with Red
Throated Pipits. A pair of Stone
Curlews was also present in the area with large flock of Greater
Short Toed Larks. Many migrants were also grounded on the beach, with Wood
Warbler, Common Redstart, Sub Alpine
Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat
and Collared Flycatcher all
feeding in the scrub.
Day
9. Final Day. Paphos Headland.
Rain
just before dawn produced our only fall of migrants of the trip, with a
massive deluge of migrants landing in the Paphos area. The headland itself
was heaving with Yellow Wagtails
of several races, Tree Pipits, Red
Throated Pipits, Tawny Pipits, Whinchats, and Wheatears.
Many
Woodchat Shrikes were also
present, with a migrant Masked
Shrike also. 2 Eastern
Bonelli’s Warblers were amongst the many Lesser
Whitethroats, Common
Whitethroats and Blackcaps.
Pied Flycatchers, were in good numbers with both Collared
and Semi-Collared Flycatchers also present. Numerous Wrynecks
flicked across the paths, feeding with the abundant Nightingales.
2 Eastern Olivaceous Warblers
fed in the scrub near the Ruins of Dionysus with similar scrub producing
our only Ruppell's Warbler of
the Trip.
Several
Flocks of Herons moved over head with Purple Heron, Cattle Egret, Little Egret, Squacco Heron and Great
White Egret all being seen. Birds
were also moving in off the sea with several Hoopoes
moving through, as well as Common
Nightjar and Common Quail.
Another Calidus race Peregrine hunted over the headland and an Eleonora’s Falcon also came off the sea.
Cape
Drepanum had a large flock of Greater Short Toed Larks and Yellow
Wagtails. With numerous Black
Eared Wheatears, Red throated Pipits and Tawny
Pipits. Several Quail moved
in off the sea here and 6 Great
White Egrets roosted on the island off shore.
Tree
Pipit
Species
|
Location
|
Status
|
Date
|
Alpine
Swift
|
Kensington
Cliffs, Paphos, Akrotiri, Asprokremnos.
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Avocet
|
Larnaca
Salt Lakes
|
Small
numbers
|
12/04/07
|
Baillons
Crake
|
Phassouri
Reed beds
|
Uncommon
(1)
|
15/04/07
|
Black
Eared Wheatear
(Western
Race)
|
Coastal
farmland and beaches.
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Black
Eared Wheatear
(Eastern
Race)
|
Coastal
farmland and beaches.
|
Common
Passage Migrant
|
Daily
|
Black
Francolin
|
Farmland
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Black
Headed Gull
|
Coasts
and marshes
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Black
Headed Wagtail
|
All
Habitats
|
Extremely
Common Passage Migrant
|
Daily
|
Black
Redstart
|
Paphos
Headland
|
Single
bird (female)
|
17/04/07
|
Black
Tailed Godwit
|
Phassouri
Reed beds
|
Single
bird (1st summer)
|
13/04/07
|
Black
Winged Stilt
|
Phassouri,
Larnaca, Paphos, Oirllinki, Asprokremnos.
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Blackbird
|
Troodos
|
Scarce
(only in mountainous areas)
|
14/04/07
|
Blackcap
|
Paphos,
Akrotiri, Ahkamas.
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Species
|
Location
|
Status
|
Date
|
Black
Vulture
|
Kensington
Cliffs
|
Single
Adult
|
10/04/07
|
Blue
Cheeked Bee-eater
|
Phassouri
Reed beds
|
2
birds. (adults)
|
15/04/07
|
Blue
Rock Thrush
|
Paphos
|
1
bird. (female)
|
13/04/07
|
Bonelli’s
Eagle
|
Evretou
Dam
|
1
bird (adult)
|
16/04/07
|
Eastern
Bonelli’s Warbler
|
Ahkamas,
Paphos.
|
6
birds over the course of the trip.
|
11/04/07
and 17/04/07
|
Cattle
Egret
|
Phassouri,
Paphos
|
Common
in suitable habitat
|
Daily
|
Cetti’s
Warbler
|
All
Habitats
|
Common
in all Habitats
|
Daily
|
Chaffinch
|
Troodos,
Paphos
|
Common
in mountains, Passage migrants seen during fall.
|
10/04/07
|
Chiffchaff
|
Paphos,
Ahkamas
|
Small
numbers on passage
|
Daily
|
Chukar
|
Asprokremnos,
Akrotiri, Coastal Farmland.
|
Common
in rocky terrain and Farmland
|
Daily
|
Citrine
Wagtail
|
Phassouri,
Lara beach
|
Birds
heard overhead. Small numbers
|
11/04/07
and 15/04/07
|
Coal
Tit (endemic race)
|
Troodos
|
Common
in mountains
|
14/04/07
|
Collared
Dove
|
All
habitats
|
Extremely
Common Resident
|
Daily
|
Collared
Flycatcher
|
Ahkamas,
Mandria, Paphos
|
5
adult males over the course of the trip
|
11/04/07
(2), 16/04/07 (1) and 17/04/07 (2)
|
Species
|
Location
|
Status
|
Date
|
Common
Buzzard
|
Lowland
areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
“steppe”
Buzzard
|
Asprokremnos
Dam
|
Single
Bird
|
14/04/07
|
Common
Crane
|
Oirilinki
Marsh
|
Single
bird (1st year)
|
12/04/07
|
Common
Sandpiper
|
All
wetland and coastal habitats
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Common
Tern
|
Larnaca
Salt Pools
|
Single
Bird
|
12/04/07
|
Coot
|
All
Wetland Areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Cormorant
|
Kensington
Cliffs
|
Single
Bird
|
10/04/07
|
Corn
Bunting
|
Farmland
and scrub areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Cory’s
Shearwater
|
Paphos
Headland
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Crag
Martin
|
Ahkamas
|
2
birds
|
11/04/07
|
Crested
Lark
|
Coastal
areas
|
Extremely
Common
|
Daily
|
Cretzschmars
Bunting
|
Paphos
|
8
birds (in small parties)
|
09/04/07
|
Crossbill
(Endemic Race)
|
Troodos
|
Common
in mountains
|
14/04/07
|
Curlew
|
Paphos
|
Single
Bird
|
16/04/07
|
Curlew
Sandpiper
|
Phassouri
|
3
birds (1st years)
|
10/04/07
|
Cyprus
Wheatear
|
All
Habitats
|
Extremely
Common endemic.
|
Daily
|
Cyprus
Warbler
|
Coastal
Scrub and agricultural groves
|
Common
Endemic
|
Daily
|
Species
|
Location
|
Status
|
Date
|
Dunlin
|
Larnaca
salt pools
|
Small
numbers amongst little stints.
|
12/04/07
|
Eleonora’s
Falcon
|
Paphos
|
Single
adult pale phase
|
17/04/07
|
Ferruginous
Duck
|
Phassouri
Reed beds
|
16
adult birds (6 Drakes) and 10 ducklings.
|
10/04/07,
15/04/07
|
Garganey
|
Phassouri,
Larnaca, Oirilinki, Paphos
|
Common
in wetlands and flocks of birds on passage at sea.
|
Daily
|
Glossy
Ibis
|
Phassouri,
Larnaca, Oirilinki and Cape Drepanum.
|
Common
in wetlands and some passage birds
|
Daily
|
Golden
Oriole
|
Paphos
|
Single
adult male
|
17/04/07
|
Goldfinch
|
All
areas
|
Extremely
Common
|
Daily
|
Goshawk
|
Akhamas
|
2
(Male and Female)
|
16/04/07
|
Greater
Flamingo
|
Akrotiri
and Larnaca
|
10
birds at Akrotiri, 4 at Larnaca
|
10/04/07
and 12/04/07
|
Great
Reed Warbler
|
Phassouri,
Ahkamas
|
Common
in reed bed and on passage
|
15/04/07
and 16/04/07
|
Great
Spotted Cuckoo
|
All
areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Great
Tit
|
All
areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Great
White Egret
|
Paphos
|
Passage
Migrant (8 birds, 2 at Paphos and 6 at Cape Drepanum)
|
17/04/07
|
Species
|
Location
|
Status
|
Date
|
Greater
Sandplover
|
Larnaca
|
Single
bird
|
12/04/07
|
Green
Sandpiper
|
Akrotiri
|
Common
|
10/04/07
|
Greenfinch
|
All
areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Greenshank
|
All
wetland areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Grey
Heron
|
Ahkna
dam
|
4
birds
|
12/04/07
|
Gull
Billed Tern
|
Asprokremnos
dam, Mandria
|
2
birds
|
14/04/07
|
Hobby
|
Ahkamas
|
Single
Bird (adult)
|
16/04/07
|
Hooded
Crow
|
All
areas
|
Extremely
common
|
Daily
|
Hoopoes
|
Coastal
areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
House
Martin
|
All
areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
House
Sparrow
|
All
areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Isabelline
Wheatear
|
Paphos,
Lara Beach, Mandria, Akrotiri
|
Present
in reasonable numbers. 2 at Paphos,1 at Lara beach, 2 at Mandria, 1
at Akrotiri
|
Daily
|
Jackdaw
|
All
areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Jay
(Endemic Race)
|
Troodos
|
Common
in Mountains
|
14/04/07
|
Kentish
Plover
|
Akrotiri
and Larnaca
|
Common
in Salt lakes
|
10/04/07
and 12/04/07
|
Kestrel
|
All
areas
|
Extremely
common resident an d passage migrant
|
Daily
|
Species
|
Location
|
Status
|
Date
|
Common
Kingfisher
|
Wetlands
and Coastal areas.
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Lesser
Black Backed Gull (Fuscus
race)
|
Coastal
areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Lesser
Whitethroat
|
All
areas
|
Common
Passage Migrant
|
Daily
|
Linnet
|
All
areas
|
Common
Resident
|
Daily
|
Little
Bittern
|
Evretou
Dam
|
Single
bird (adult male)
|
Daily
|
Little
Crake
|
Phassouri
|
Over
20 individuals
|
10/04/07
|
Little
Egret
|
Coastal
Areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Little
Grebe
|
All
wetland areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Little
gull
|
Larnaca
Salt Pools
|
3
birds, 1 adult and 2 first summers
|
12/04/07
|
Little
Owl
|
Asprokremnos
Dam
|
Single
male seen, numerous singing birds
|
09/04/07
|
Little
Ringed Plover
|
Phassouri
|
Common
in wetlands
|
Daily
|
Little
Stint
|
Phassouri
and Larnaca
|
Common
passage migrant
|
Daily
|
Little
Tern
|
Larnaca
Salt pools
|
3
birds
|
12/04/07
|
Long
Legged Buzzard
|
Polis
area and Ahkna Dam
|
5
birds over course of the trip
|
11/04/07
and 16/04/07
|
Magpie
|
All
areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Mallard
|
All
wetland areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Species
|
Location
|
Status
|
Date
|
Marsh
Harrier
|
All
Areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Marsh
Sandpiper
|
Larnaca
Salt pools
|
20+
birds
|
12/04/07
|
Masked
Shrike
|
Coastal
areas on migration and highland areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
Cape
Drepanum
|
2
first summers
|
17/04/07
|
Merlin
|
Cape
Drepanum
|
Single
Birds
|
11/04/07
|
Moorhen
|
All
wetland areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Night
Heron
|
All
wetland areas and coastal areas on passage
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Nightingale
|
All
areas
|
Common
passage migrant
|
Daily
|
Nightjar
|
Paphos
|
Single
bird
|
17/04/07
|
Olivaceous
Warbler
|
Ahkamas,
Paphos
|
3
birds (1 at Ahkamas, 2 Paphos)
|
16/04/07
and 17/04/07
|
Ortolan
Bunting
|
Paphos,
Ahkamas
|
Common
Passage Migrant
|
Daily
|
Osprey
|
Asprokremnos
Dam
|
Single
Adult
|
14/04/07
|
Pallid
Harrier
|
Paphos,
Akrotiri, Evretou
|
3
Ringtail harriers
|
15/04/07,16/04/07
|
Pallid
Swift
|
Akrotiri
and Troodos
|
Several
Birds amongst Common Swifts
|
09/04/07
and 10/04/07 and 14/04/07
|
Species
|
Location
|
Status
|
Date
|
Peregrine
Falcon (calidus race)
|
Phassouri
reed beds and Everetou Dam, Paphos.
|
3
birds encountered.
|
10/04/07
|
Pied
Flycatcher
|
Paphos,
Ahkamas
|
Common
migrant
|
Daily
|
Pied
Kingfisher
|
Paphos
harbour
|
Single
Bird
|
09/04/07
|
Pochard
|
Phassouri
|
Single
Drake
|
10/04/07
|
Purple
Heron
|
All
Areas
|
Common
in wetlands and on passage
|
Daily
|
Quail
|
Cape
Drepanum
|
6
birds off the sea
|
17/04/07
|
Red
Backed Shrike
|
Akrotiri
|
Single
adult Female
|
10/04/07
|
Red
Footed Falcon
|
Mandria,
Polis area
|
4
birds at Mandria, 2 in Polis area.
|
15/04/07
and 16/04/07
|
Red
Rumped Swallow
|
All
areas
|
Common
Migrant
|
Daily
|
Red
Throated Pipit
|
Coastal
areas and watch points
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Redshank
|
Phassouri
|
Single
bird
|
09/04/07
|
Redstart
|
Paphos,
Ahkamas
|
Common
Migrant
|
Daily
|
Reed
Warbler
|
Phassouri
|
Common
|
10/04/07
|
Ringed
Plover
|
Larnaca
|
12+
birds
|
12/04/07
|
Rock
Dove
|
All
Areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Roller
|
All
Areas
|
Common
Passage migrant
|
Daily
|
Ruff
|
All
Wetland areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Species
|
Location
|
Status
|
Date
|
Ruppell's
Warbler
|
Paphos
|
Single
Bird (male)
|
17/04/07
|
Sand
Martin
|
All
areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
Larnaca
|
4
birds
|
12/04/07
|
Sardinian
Warbler
|
All
areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Savi’s
Warbler
|
Phassouri
|
Single
singing bird
|
15/04/07
|
Sedge
Warbler
|
All
areas
|
Common
Passage Migrant
|
Daily
|
Semi-Collared
Flycatcher
|
Akhamas,
Paphos
|
2
birds, (male at Akhamas, female at Paphos
|
11/04/07
and 17/04/07
|
Serin
|
All
areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Shag
|
Kensington
Cliffs
|
Colony
|
10/04/07
|
Short
Toed Lark
|
Coastal
Areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Short
Toed Tree Creeper
|
Troodos
|
Common
in mountains
|
14/04/07
|
Shoveler
|
Phassouri
|
4
birds
|
10/4/07
|
Skylark
|
Cape
Drepanum
|
Single
Bird
|
13/04/07
|
Slender
Billed Gull
|
Larnaca
and Akrotiri
|
Common
|
10/04/07
and 12/04/07
|
Snipe
|
Phassouri
|
Common
|
10/04/07
|
Spanish
Sparrow
|
All
areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
SparrowHawk
|
Paphos
|
Single
Bird
|
17/04/07
|
Species
|
Location
|
Status
|
Date
|
Spectacled
Warbler
|
Larnaca,
Akrotiri, Oirilinki
|
Common
in Suitable Habitat
|
12/04/07
|
Spoonbill
|
Mandria
|
14
Birds migrating along coast
|
15/04/07
|
Spotted
Redshank
|
Larnaca,
Phassouri
|
Adult
at Larnaca, 1st year at Phassouri
|
12/04/07
|
Spur
Winged Plover
|
All
wetland areas
|
Common
|
09/04/07
|
Squacco
Heron
|
All
areas
|
Common
in wetlands and on migration
|
Daily
|
Stone
Curlew
|
Mandria
|
2
birds
|
14/04/07
|
Subalpine
Warbler
|
Paphos,
Mandria
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Swallow
|
All
areas
|
Extremely
Common
|
Daily
|
Swift
|
All
areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Tawny
Pipit
|
Coastal
areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Teal
|
Asprokremnos,
Phassouri and Larnaca
|
Singles
at each site
|
09/04/07
|
Tree
Pipit
|
All
areas
|
Very
Common Passage Migrant
|
Daily
|
Turtle
Dove
|
Paphos
|
Single
Bird
|
09/04/07
|
Water
Pipit
|
Phassouri
|
Single
Bird
|
10/04/07
|
Water
Rail
|
Phassouri
|
Single
Bird
|
15/04/07
|
Northern
Wheatear
|
All
areas
|
Very
Common
|
Daily
|
Whinchat
|
Paphos
|
Very
common
|
Daily
|
Species
|
Location
|
Status
|
Date
|
White
Wagtail
|
All
areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Whitethroat
|
Paphos
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Willow
Warbler
|
Paphos
|
2
birds
|
09/04/07
|
Woodlark
|
Paphos
|
Single
Bird
|
09/04/07
|
Wood
Pigeon
|
All
areas
|
Very
Common
|
Daily
|
Wood
Sandpiper
|
All
wetlands
|
Very
Common Migrant
|
Daily
|
Wood
Warbler
|
All
areas
|
Small
numbers on passage
|
Daily
|
Woodchat
Shrike
(Senator
and Niloticus races)
|
Paphos
|
Common
Migrant
|
Daily
|
Wryneck
|
All
areas
|
Common
Migrant
|
Daily
|
Yellow
Legged Gull
|
Coastal
areas
|
Common
|
Daily
|
Zitting
Cisticola
|
All
areas
|
Very
Common
|
Daily
|
Total species: 164
6
|