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Trip Reports

Cyprus April 10th - 17th 2004

Introduction: Direct flight from Dublin on the bank holiday weekend cost us € 500 which included accommodation. Car hire was € 300 and booked with the travel agent, this was for a Renault Megane. Flight took five hours twenty minutes with the time difference being two hours behind Irish time. We stayed at Limassol which is situated on the centre of the South coast
and is ideal as a central base also one of the hot spots for birding. Once again weather was fine and very bright, aiding Digi-scoping and letting us take images at low apertures. In general birding was excellent with plenty to be looking at. We found the Gosney guide dated and of little use, but the Birdwatching Guide to Cyprus by Arthur Stagg and Graham Hearl was invaluable and directions were accurate. The following is a list of Birds observed on our trip with the following pages covering an assortment of images, we observed a sum of 145 species.

Species of note: Pallid Harrier 2, Booted Eagle 1, Bonelli's Eagle 2, Lesser Kestrel 1, Red-footed Falcon 11, Hobby 1, Saker 1, Spotted Crake 2, Little Crake 1, Baillon's Crake 1, Demoiselle Crane 1, Collard Pratincole 1, Pallas's Gull 1, Mediterranean Gull 1, Little Gull 3, Armenian Gull 1, Pied Kingfisher 1, Bimaculated Lark 2, Citerine Wagtail 1, Thrush Nightingale 1, White-throated Robin 1, Orphean Warbler 1, Semi-collard Flycatcher 3, Collard Flycatcher.


Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides Phassouri Reed Beds April 2004. Whole Limassol area good for this species.

Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis Phassouri Reed Beds April 2004. Adult breeding plumage

Great White Egret Egretta alba Phassouri Reed Beds April 2004. One can judge the size using the Ibis in the back ground.

Purple Heron Ardea purpurea Phassouri Reed Beds April 2004. One of three adult's present every day.
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