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Birding Cyprus? Sewage Pools
2011-06-24 23:18:00
My latest beat-writer post is up at 10,000 Birds: Birding Cyprus’ Sewage Pools: Tagged: Cyprus
BirdLife field trip from 21-May
2011-05-29 10:04:00
Last weekend I got to lead a field trip for BirdLife Cyprus in the Akrotiri area. The field trips usually have a late start at 9:30am and this was no different, with a relatively large attendance of I think about 20-25 people. The designated meeting/starting spot was at Zakaki, where we were treated to close-up ...
Migrant Warblers in Cyprus
2011-04-29 19:05:00
My latest beat writer post for 10,000 Birds is up: Migrant Warblers in Cyprus Barred Warbler ????????? Sylvia risoria Credit: Jane Stylianou / Cyprus Birding Tours Details: Taken 22-April-2011 at Cape Greco, Cyprus
Spring is for Wheatears
2011-03-18 22:09:00
My latest beat-writer post is up on 10,000 Birds: Spring is for Wheatears
2nd Annual Cyprus Bird Race
2011-03-15 22:06:00
BirdLife Cyprus is getting ready for its second annual Bird Race on April 2nd. Last year’s Bird Race involved 6 teams who saw 154 species over 24 hours, raising money for a Tern raft at Larnaka Sewage Works Pools, in readiness for breeding Terns to use during spring of 2011. And as the organization’s online ...
Sandwich Tern
2011-03-13 08:56:00
Sandwich Tern ?????????????? Sterna sandvicensis Credit: Jane Stylianou / Cyprus Birding Tours Details: Taken 25-March-2011 along the seafront in Larnaca, Cyprus Tagged: birds of Cyprus
Merry Sol Invictus
2010-12-21 05:30:00
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) Credit: Dan Rhoads / http://migration.wordpress.com- Details: Taken 17-Feb-2007 in Ithaca NY (USA) Merry Sol Invictus and Happy holidays to you all, whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the Solstice, or something else. This is a very popular winter bird in North America, and I am American after all, so this choice ...
Birding the Divided Land
2010-12-10 21:10:00
My latest beat-writer post is up at 10,000 Birds: Birding the Divided Land Tagged: Cyprus
Grey Hypocolios
2010-12-07 07:37:00
Grey Hypocolios Hypocolios ambelinus Credit: Stavros Christodoulides Taken: 05/12/2010, Cape Greco park This is one of those rare gems that birders drive for miles and miles to see. Last Friday (03/12/10), members of BirdLife Cyprus began hearing of a report of a Hypocolios that had been seen in Cape Greco. A very select group of ...
Keys to quick bird identification
2010-10-17 13:17:00
Via the Cornell Lab of Ornithology — Many people are always amazed that we birders can so very quickly recognize a bird species. A glimpse of movement, darting across the path, is often all we need. The secret is easy: each species has it’s own distinctive profile (its size and shape). The bird’s voice, habitat, ...
Whiskered Tern
2010-10-03 08:54:00
Whiskered Tern ???????????? (Chlidonias hybrida) Credit: © Don Hadden / www.ardea.com One of the subgroup of Terns that prefer marshy habitats, the Whiskered Tern is commonly seen in Cyprus during Autumn migration. In fact, yesterday I saw four with just a brief drive around the Akrotiri peninsula. Tagged: Birds, birds of Cyprus
Trip Report ? 18 September 2010
2010-09-20 18:51:00
A popular reason for birders to come to Cyprus is its endemics. With two endemic breeding species, and 5 recognized endemic subspecies, this insular corner of the world has some birds you just can’t see anywhere else. I met with my two guests for the day at their hotel in Paphos at 7am, and I ...
Saker Falcon
2010-07-21 14:19:00
It’s been a while since I posted a good bit of bird photography, mostly because I myself don’t have a good camera lens for wild birds, plus I don’t feel right begging for photos from others and I don’t have the money to pay for bird photographs. But I find it very nice to post ...
European Roller (?????????????)
2010-06-30 12:29:00
From a couple of weekends ago at Kivisili in Cyprus. Taken by my father, Larry. See the entire post for a nice photo sequence of the bird. Beautiful, isn’t it? Sadly though, European Rollers have in recent years undergone moderately rapid declines across its global range and it is consequently considered Near Threatened. Scientists fear ...
Recent Birding
2010-06-29 08:46:00
From BirdLife Cyprus? bird recorder, some recent good birds that?ve been reported: Some good sightings reported, including lots of Nightjars: Meneou Pools, 27-Jun (SC) c20 Little Tern including 3 chicks and c7 eggs 3 Greater Sand Plover 5 Slender-billed Gull 6+ Audouin’s Gull Spyros Pool, 27-Jun (SC) Red-necked Phalarope 1 f (br plumage) 1 Marsh Sandpiper ...
Recent Birding
2010-06-09 08:46:00
From BirdLife Cyprus’ bird recorder, some recent good birds that’ve been reported: Here?s an interesting batch of sightings, received in recent days:   Achna Dam, 9-Jun (ONi) 23 Black-crowned Night Herons 4 Cetti’s Warbler 1 Kestrel 3 Spur-winged Plovers (1 pair pairing) 35 Crested Larks 5 Coots 1 Little Grebe 1 Moorhen 2 males Black ...
Meet the Birds
2010-05-30 09:20:00
This coming week, BirdLife Cyprus is hosting A Date with the Birds: ave you ever seen the birds through a telescope before? Have you ever observed their behavior and their colours with binoculars? If not, then come along to one (or both!) of the special ?Dates with birds? events being organized by BirdLife Cyprus as ...
Recent Birding
2010-05-22 08:46:00
From BirdLife Cyprus’ bird recorder, some recent good birds that’ve been reported: Marathounta, 21-May (CR) Marsh Harrier 1 fem. European Bee-eater 32 Great Spotted Cuckoo 1 juv (first of season?) Ayia Napa Sewage Works, 20-May (JS) 2m Black-headed Bunting and 1f with food in bill Achna Dam, 20-May (JS) Little Egret 8 Glossy Ibis 2 ...
Recent Birding
2010-05-16 18:46:00
From BirdLife Cyprus’ bird recorder, some recent good birds that’ve been reported: Spring migration is slowly drawing to a close, although some good birds were reported this week: Armou & Marathounta, 15 & 16-May (CR) European Bee-eater 60+ daily Kannaviou Dam & Forest, 15-May (fieldtrip) Squacco Heron 2 Masked Shrike 5 Cretzschmar?s Bunting 2m Black-headed ...
Recent Birding
2010-05-09 08:46:00
From BirdLife Cyprus’ bird recorder, some recent good birds that’ve been reported: A selection of the week?s good birds: Armou, 9-May (CR) European Bee-eater 28 Roller 1 Tree Pipit 1 Whinchat 3 Woodchat Shrike 1 Cretzschmar?s Bunting 1m on territory Larnaca Sewage Works & Meneou Pools, 8-May (fieldtrip) Garganey 1m Ferruginous Duck 1 White-winged Tern ...
Trip Report ? 6 May 2010
2010-05-07 11:21:00
This is a trip report for our Cyprus Birding Tours. Target species: Primarily the Cyprus endemic species/subspecies We made a really good attempt to see the Scops Owl but they were elusive although we heard a couple at Troodos. We also got Barn Owl which I had told [our guest] was unlikely and saw at ...
Recent Birding
2010-05-02 08:46:00
From BirdLife Cyprus’ bird recorder, some recent good birds that’ve been reported: There are signs of renewed migration, including 1000s of Spotted, Collared & Pied Flycatchers, 100s of Golden Orioles and Wood Warblers passing through the island in the last few days: Ezousa Valley, Episkopi, 2-May (CR) Bonelli?s Eagle 2ads Red-footed Falcon 1m Common Sandpiper ...
Spring Migration in Cyprus
2010-04-06 09:51:00
While I’m on hiatus from birding to help my wife look after our now 2-week-old daughter, go check out Spyros’ blog post at Birdwatching in Greece: Spring bird trip to Cyprus: where anything may stop by!. From reports, this has been an amazing Spring for birders here in Cyprus… Saker Falcon, Cream-colored Coursers, Dotterels, Caspian ...
Recent Birding
2010-03-31 08:46:00
From BirdLife Cyprus’ bird recorder, some recent good birds that’ve been reported: Some interesting sightings in recent days include the following: Mandria, 31-Mar Trumpeter Finch 1, seen briefly before it took flight, then not relocated Subalpine Warbler 1m ‘dombrowskii’ Yellow Wagtail (dark-headed with eye-stripe) 1 Also passing Glossy Ibis, Night Herons, Black-winged Stilt. Aspro Dam Pools, 31-Mar Little Bittern 1 Spotted Crake 1 Little ...
Recent Birding
2010-03-26 07:46:00
From BirdLife Cyprus’ bird recorder, some recent good birds that’ve been reported: Some interesting sightings of the week include the following: Agios Nikolaos – Mandria, Troodos, 25-Mar Bonelli’s Eagle 1 Masked Shrike 1 Finsch’s Wheatear 1m Akrotiri Gravel Pits, 25-Mar Cream-coloured Courser 3 Isabelline Shrike 1 Galataria Marsh, 24-Mar Demoiselle Crane 1 Common Crane 1 Cape Greco, 24-Mar Bimaculated Lark 4 Caspian Stonechat 2 Karpas Peninsula, 22-24-Mar Peregrine 4 Quail c25 ...
Recent Birding
2010-03-21 07:46:00
From BirdLife Cyprus’ bird recorder, some recent good birds that’ve been reported: Akrotiri Gravel Pits, 21-Mar (SC, RP) Cream-coloured Courser 2 Dotterel 1 (at least) Zakaki Pond 20-Mar (MB) Ferruginous Duck 8, pairing off Black Winged Stilt 5 Sedge Warbler 1 Shoveler 9 Isabelline Wheatear 22 Spectacled Warbler 1 Ringed Plover 1 Bishops Pool 20-Mar (MB) Mallard plus 12 ducklings Sedge Warbler 3 Akrotiri Gravel Pits 20-Mar (MB) Little Egret 1 Kentish ...
Recent Birding
2010-03-17 07:46:00
From BirdLife Cyprus’ bird recorder, some recent good birds that’ve been reported: Armou & Marathounta 15-17-Mar (CR) Long-legged Buzzard 1 Hoopoe 3 House Martin 20 Tree Pipit 3 Tawny Pipit 5 Meadow Pipit 40+ Isabelline Wheatear 10+ Northern Wheatear 6+ Black-eared Wheatear 8+ Finsch’s Wheatear 2m Common Whitethroat 1 Lesser Whitethroat 8 Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler 1 Rüppell’s Warbler 3m Subalpine Warbler 1f Cretzschmar’s Bunting 30 Corn Bunting 50+ Zakaki Marsh, 16-Mar (KH) Osprey 1 Bishops Pool, ...
Recent Birding
2010-03-10 07:46:00
From BirdLife Cyprus’ bird recorder, some recent good birds that’ve been reported: Limassol General Hospital, 9-Mar Common Crane 20 passing over heading NE Akrotiri Base, near hospital, 9-Mar Asian Desert Warbler 1 Mandria – Timi, 9-Mar Great Cormorant 16 Shoveler 1 Pintail 15 Teal 11 Quail 1 calling Golden Plover 2 Little Ringed Plover 2 Curlew 1 Slender-billed Gull 4 Baltic Gull 3 Sandwich Tern 4 Short-eared Owl 1 Hoopoe 5 Short-toed Lark 330 Skylark ...
Recent Birding
2010-03-03 07:46:00
From BirdLife Cyprus’ bird recorder, some recent good birds that’ve been reported: Kensington Cliffs, 1-Mar Wallcreeper 1 Mandria, 1-Mar Merlin 1f Golden Plover 23 Red-throated Pipit 3 Isabelline Wheatear 3 Asprokremmos Dam, Phinikas, 1-Mar Great Crested Grebe 2 Pied Kingfisher 1 Cape Drepanum, 28-Feb Peregrine 1 Blue Rock Thrush 1m Larnaca Sewage Works, Spiros Pools & area, 27-Feb Black-necked Grebe 2 Pochard 1 Ferruginous Duck 2 Greater Flamingo c550 Spoonbill 1 Kentish Plover 45 Ringed Plover ...
Beyond the List
2010-02-23 10:41:00
Of the books about birding that I’ve read, my favorite by far is Scott Weidensaul’s Of A Feather: A Brief History of American Birding. It doesn’t matter that I now live in Europe and might be considered an Old World birder now, the United States is where I became a birder. Of A Feather tells ...
Spotlight: Isabelline Wheatear
2010-02-16 15:30:00
Spring migration isn’t in full swing for 2010 just yet, but the first seasonal travelers are starting to pass through Cyprus in small numbers. The first Barn Swallows were seen about a little over a week ago, and this past week the first Great Spotted Cuckoos and Isabelline Wheatears have been reported. In a couple ...
Those Little Bustards
2009-11-13 10:19:00
A little more than a week ago, BirdLife Cyprus’s field trip officer Stavros Christodoulides was put into contact with a Larnaca-area taxidermist who reportedly had been given three Little Bustards Tetrax tetrax to stuff over the last two years. Why is that interesting, you ask? Because the presence of Little Bustards in Cyprus is news ...
Creationists and Birding
2009-11-04 10:17:00
Perhaps in an effort to stir the pot so to speak, Corey at 10,000 Birds raised an interesting question a few days ago: Can Creationists Be Birders? The short answer is “Of course!” For most birders, the appreciation of birds does not extend much beyond the aesthetic beauty of the birds and the ability to ...
Weekend Birding ? Black Storks
2009-10-12 11:17:00
Black Stork (Ciconia nigra) — A scarce passage migrant in Cyprus, it is generally seen in single figures in late April/early May and from September to November. I was lucky to see seven this past Saturday on the Akrotiri Salt Flats, and four of them again a while later, probably the same birds. Seeing seven ...
Birds in the Scope
2009-10-04 07:48:00
Found on the web, this clip has a cool feel to it, taking a view through a spotting scope with a camcorder. The effect is to give the sensation of actually being there, looking through the scope, which probably was itself shaking simply due to the wind. Moreover, the Demoiselle Cranes are just as you ...
Image of the Day ? Spoonbill
2009-09-30 11:17:00
Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) – A passage migrant in Cyprus, with a few seen in wetland areas every Spring and Autumn. I saw my first two of this Autumn this past Sunday. Some background on Spoonbills: Range: The wide but fragmented breeding range of the Eurasian Spoonbill extends from Europe to northwest Africa, the Red Sea, ...
Cyprus Birds email-list
2009-08-25 11:37:00
Want to hear more about birdwatching in Cyprus? On one of my many whims, I started an email-list (Cyprus-birds) to help stir discussion and build community about wild birds here. Anyone can join. There are a lot of things that this email-list could do for birdwatchers in Cyprus, including providing leadership to newer birders by ...
On Listing in Cyprus
2009-08-06 11:08:00
As Fatbirder tells it: Many (but by no means all) birders are inveterate list keepers. Some settle for a world life list… a list of all the species of birds they have seen at home and abroad, others will also keep a list of their home country and separate lists for each country they have visited. ...
How to Birdwatch
2009-08-05 13:30:00
Jane of BirdLife Cyprus recently posted on ‘Gaining Identification Skills’: It is stating the obvious to say that once you start bird watching you will want to be able to put a name to the different types or species that you see. When you start, trying to put the right name to the bird can be ...
Warblers on Limesticks
2009-04-11 13:28:00
Today’s birdwatching outing was a productive one, with 10 new year birds added to the list. However, there was one big negative: finding limesticks (sticky glue on sticks for trapping birds, which are later served as an illegal delicacy called ambelopoulia). Stavros and I found four limesticks set, two with birds already caught. We freed ...
Birdwatching Ethics
2009-04-03 14:39:00
The March newsletter for BirdLife Cyprus has a “Code of Practice” (based on one developed by British bird conservation groups and birdwatching magazines) that bears repeating: A growing number of people enjoy birdwatching in Cyprus ? this code puts the interests of birds first and respects the countryside and other people, whether or not they are interested in ...
Migration in Full Swing
2009-03-22 09:55:00
Yesterday was really just an awesome day for me, going out birdwatching again with Stavros. Sure, we kinda ‘ditched’ the rest of the BirdLife Cyprus fieldtrip in Cape Greco, but I’m sure they had a great day birding too. For starters, we went looking for a bird that had been reported along Mazatos beach on Friday ...
Checklist for Birds of Cyprus
2009-03-02 09:51:00
In my free time about a week ago, I put together a handy brochure-type checklist for birdwatching in Cyprus [.doc], especially for those people who keep lists (e.g. life lists, year lists, records of individual field trips, etc.). I used it this past weekend, and intend to share it with others in BirdLife Cyprus. I ...
Desert Warbler and Gloger?s Rule
2009-01-22 09:03:00
The bird of the month for me was seeing a Desert Warbler, Sylvia nana, with it being the only the eighth recorded bird of its species in Cyprus to date, as I’ve been told. Quite cool, as it simply wanted to hide in the desert shrubs of the area in which it had been hanging ...
Passage of Raptors
2008-10-05 16:52:00
This morning I went out with fellow birdwatcher Stavros, who is much more knowledgeable, and others from BirdLife Cyprus. We went to Akrotiri and the surrounding area, and what a treat we had. We were there in a parking lot between a small but dense area of trees where hundreds of raptors had apparently been roosting ...
House Martin colony
2008-08-03 17:32:00
House Martin (Delichon urbicum) colony at the Palekhori-Kambi Dam in Cyprus. This species is a migratory passerine bird of the swallow family which breeds in Europe, north Africa and temperate Asia; and winters in sub-Saharan Africa and tropical Asia. Images: my father (June 14, 2008)
Cyprus Pied Wheatear
2008-07-27 14:53:00
Cyprus Pied Wheatear, Oenanthe cypriaca, from home in Engomi, Cyprus. This species is an Old World flycatcher, and one of two bird species endemic to Cyprus. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of Pied Wheatear but given full species status, on the basis of differences in biometrics and especially song, and the lack of ...
Birding Trails New Jersey
2008-07-05 21:24:00
The Stone Harbor Bird Sanctuary used to be a closed area - for birds only! Now that is all changing as the sanctuary will be getting trails. It took a change of ordinance but there will 4 trails completed by end of summer. Do the trails and people walking through bother the birds? ...
Tricolored Heron
2008-05-25 11:20:00
Tricolored Heron, Egretta tricolor Picture: Larry (Dan’s father), April 24, in the Everglades
Fishing, birding bonanza at Walt Disney World
2008-05-18 11:07:00
WALT DISNEY WORLD, Fla. -- In this kingdom of fantasy, there's magic in reality, too.Birds, some of them rare or unusual, come here to spend the summer or take a break in their travels. And silvery bass swirl the waters of Seve...
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