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Waterbird count and other birding around Larnaca today, 17th March 2015

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Mixture of migrants and winter visitors around Larnaca today

Black-winged Stilt Meneou Pool 17th March 2015  (c) Cyprus Birding Tours

Black-winged Stilt Meneou Pool 17th March 2015 (c) Cyprus Birding Tours

Meneou Pool – Black-winged Stilt 6

Larnaca Airport Pools South – Black-winged Stilt 13, Slender-billed Gull 49, Greater Flamingo 776, Black-headed Gull 215, Common Shelduck 42, Little Gull 1, Armenian Gull 2+, Caspian Gull 2

Larnaca Sewage Works – Green Sandpiper 2, Northern Shoveler 21, Eurasian Teal 111, Spur-winged Lapwing 6, Ferruginous Duck 2, Ruppell’s Warbler 1f, Great Cormorant c180 flying E at 17.15pm

Spiros Pool and Beach area – Wryneck 2, Temminck’s Stint 1, Little Stint 3

Larnaca Airport Pools North – Greater Flamingo 39

Larnaca Salt Lake – Greater Flamingo 2770, Slender-billed Gull 159, Little Ringed Plover 3, Northern Shoveler 313, Common Shelduck 44, Eurasian Wigeon 1m and 1f, Northern Pintail 1m and 1f, Black-necked Grebe 11, Eurasian Reed Warbler 6+heard singing, Eurasian Teal 38, Green Sandpiper 1, Black-winged Stilt 2, Spur-winged Lapwing 2, Common Redshank 21, Common Snipe 1, Ruff 3, Little Stint 54, Dunlin 4, Common Ringed Plover 1, Kentish Plover 11

Kiti Dam – Masked Shrike 1, Eurasian Coot 31, Northern Shoveler 3, Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler 1

Petounta Point – Eurasian Hoopoe 4, Isabelline Wheatear 2, Corncrake 1 (flew from side of track into cereal crop), Red-throated Pipit 3, Kentish Plover 2

Eurasian Hoopoe Petounta Point 17th March 2015 (c) Cyprus Birding Tours

Eurasian Hoopoe Petounta Point 17th March 2015 (c) Cyprus Birding Tours

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