Trip report for recent Birdwatching Breaks visit to Cyprus.

http://www.birdwatchingbreaks.com/2011Trip%20Reports/NEW_Cyprus2016_TripRep.htm

Over the past week Cyprus Birding Tours was guiding for the UK based company Birdwatching Breaks here in Cyprus. During the week good views were had of Cyprus Warbler and Cyprus Wheatear as well as the endemic sub-species – Coal Tit, Short-toed Treecreeper and Eurasian Jay. Other notable species seen included: Hooded Wheatear, Semi-collared Flycatcher, Bimaculated and Calandra Lark, Ferruginous Duck, Temminck’s Stint, Eleonora’s Falcon, Eurasian Griffon Vulture, Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler, Black Francolin, Chukar, Pallid and Montagu’s Harrier, Lesser Kestrel, Eurasian Stone Curlew, Bonelli’s Eagle, Spur-winged Lapwing, Spotted Crake, Long-legged Buzzard, Baltic Gull, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Red-throated Pipit, Eurasian Wryneck, Pallid Swift, Masked Shrike, Cretzschmar’s and Ortolan Bunting.

The report contains 38 colour photos, the 2014 Systematic List of 295 observed species or recognised forms which was compiled from nearly 74,000 records, the 2014 Ringing report, papers on the first Striated Heron in Cyprus, the first breeding records of Eurasian Hobby in the Paphos area, the BirdLife Cyprus 2014 monitoring programmes, the status of the Laughing Dove in Cyprus, Chiffchaffs at Lower Ezousas in November 2014 and migrants at inland sites in Western Paphos. The Report includes species charts and tables and a full Cyprus bird List. The front cover features the first Striated Heron in Cyprus found at Zakaki Marsh in October 2014.