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Rare sightings from autumn ’24
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Continue reading →: Rare sightings from autumn ’24First rainfalls came well in November and so was the cold. Here are the special birds recorded on the island this autumn. White-headed Duck (Oxyura leucocephala) First spotted by Jacco Slomp in Metochi Lake on 31 October 2024 where it stayed for a few days (see original entry in Observado…
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Continue reading →: LESVOS in the Global Birdfair 2024!Come say “kalimera” in the NECCA (National Environment and Climate Change Agency) stand at the Global Birdfair. ROBIN MARQUEE, STAND No 42, 43, 44 The stand of NECCA, has tripled to showcase Lesvos this year! I will be at the fair representing LESVOS and its birds for the 3rd time.…
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Continue reading →: 3 May’24Eleonora’s Falcon (Michael Sveikutis) Find here the HIGHLIGHTS of bird sightings and check for more common birds on the LINKS at the end of the post. The island is packed with shrikes (Red-backed being the most numerous) and Eleonora’s falcons are now being seen as flyovers regularly. Many flycathers are around the western parts.…
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Continue reading →: 30 April ’24Great Snipe (Ron Macdonald) Find here the HIGHLIGHTS of bird sightings and check for more common birds on the LINKS at the end of the post. A Great Snipe (Gallinago media) popped up, and in the West, Levant Sparrowhawks (Accipiter brevipes) had a noteble passage and so had Lesser Grey and Red-backed Shrikes! Not…
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Continue reading →: 29 April ’24Collared Pratincole (Phil Gower) Find here the HIGHLIGHTS of bird sightings and check for more common birds on the LINKS at the end of the post. CENTRAL LESVOS POTAMIA HIDDEN POOL Lesser Grey Shrike 2 METOCHI LAKE Purple Heron 2 Little Bittern 1 Squacco Heron 3 Little Crake 1+ Alpine Swift 2 Peregrine Falcon…
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Continue reading →: 28 April ’24Montagu’s Harrier (Martin Roper) Find here the HIGHLIGHTS of bird sightings and check for more common birds on the LINKS at the end of the post. CENTRAL LESVOS MAKARA Glossy Ibis 1 Little Bittern 1, m Squacco Heron 1 Alpine Swift 2 Roller 1 in sea Yelkouan Shearwater 30 Scopoli’s Shearwater 4+ POTAMIA HIDDEN…
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Continue reading →: 26 April ’24Montagu’s Harrier (Phil Gower) Find here the HIGHLIGHTS of bird sightings and check for more common birds on the LINKS at the end of the post. CENTRAL LESVOS POTAMIA HIDDEN POOL Eurasian Bittern 1 Night Heron 2 Little Bittern 1 METOCHI LAKE Purple Heron 2 Squacco Heron 4 Night Heron 2 Little Bittern 1,…
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Continue reading →: 24 April ’24Collared Pratincoles near Kalloni Pans salt hill (Mirsini Kladogeni) Find here the HIGHLIGHTS of bird sightings and check for more common birds on the LINKS at the end of the post. CENTRAL LESVOS POTAMIA HIDDEN POOL Night Heron 5 Little Bittern 1 Goshawk 1 METOCHI LAKE Little Crake 2+ Little Bittern 1 Purple Heron…
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22 April ’24
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Continue reading →: 22 April ’24Alpine Swift (Phil Gower) Find here the HIGHLIGHTS of bird sightings and check for more common birds on the LINKS at the end of the post. CENTRAL LESVOS MAKARA Alpine Swift 20 Ortolan Bunting 1 POTAMIA HIDDEN POOL Night Heron 5 METOCHI LAKE Little Crake 6 Little Bittern 1, m Squacco Heron 3 Purple…
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Continue reading →: 20 April ’24Golden Orioles (Ron Macdonald)) A day after a night storm, with wind, light rain and cold (14 degrees) in the west until early afternoon. With several Golden Orioles (west), Montague’s harriers & Red-footed Falcons (all-over), the first incoming Little Bitterns and two Cattle Egrets around. And a mega of a…
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Continue reading →: 18 April ’24Black-headed Bunting (Andrew Whitehouse) Find here the HIGHLIGHT bird sightings and check for more common birds on the LINKS at the end of the post. CENTRAL LESVOS METOCHI LAKE Squacco Heron 2 Black Stork 1 Little Crake 3, 1m Common Snipe 1 Turtle Dove 2 Crag Martin 4 Great Reed Warbler 1 Collared Flycatcher…
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Continue reading →: 17 April ’24Female Masked Shrike (Ron Macdonald)) Find here the HIGHLIGHT bird sightings and check for more common birds on the LINKS at the end of the post. CENTRAL LESVOS POTAMIA OLD (HIDDEN) RESERVOIR Night Heron 3 METOCHI LAKE Little Crake 6 (4f, 2m) TSIKNIAS RIVER Night Heron 5 Spur-winged Lapwing 2 (near mouth) Gull-billed Tern…
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Continue reading →: 16 April ’24Citrine Wagtail (Karin Langenberg) Find here the HIGHLIGHT bird sightings and check for more common birds on the LINKS at the end of the post. CENTRAL LESVOS POTAMIA (HIDDEN) RESERVOIR Green Sandpiper 6 ENNIA KAMARES (CHRISTOU) Greenshank 6 Little Stints, Kentish Plovers SKALA KALLONI BEACH Sandwich Tern 9 Common Tern 2 TSIKNIAS TO KALLONI…
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Continue reading →: 15 April ’24Greater Short-toed Lark (Stylianos Zannetos) Find here the HIGHLIGHT bird sightings and check for more common birds on the LINKS at the end of the post. CENTRAL LESVOS MAKARA Alpine Swifts drinking water Turtle Dove 2 Lesser Kestrel 1 AGIOS IOANNIS Sombre Tit 2 Hobby 1 SKALA KALLONI POOL Spur-winged Plover 1, am Great…
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14 April ’24
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Continue reading →: 14 April ’24Ferruginous Duck (Paul Manning) Find here the HIGHLIGHT bird sightings and check for more common birds on the LINKS at the end of the post. CENTRAL LESVOS METOCHI LAKE Ferruginous Duck 1, female ENNIA KAMARES (CHRISTOU) Citrine Wagtail 2, male & female Little Crake 1 TSIKNIAS RIVER Spur-winged Plover 2 KALLONI SALT PANS Spur-winged…
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13 April ’24
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Continue reading →: 13 April ’24Ortolan Bunting (Panos Agiakatsikas) Foreighn birders are already around and bird sightings are reported more by now. Find here the HIGHLIGHT bird sightings and check for more common birds on the LINKS at the end of the post. CENTRAL LESVOS TSIKNIAS RIVER Spur-winged Plover 2 (am, K. Mullarney, pm, P.…
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Continue reading →: 10-12 April ’24Squacco Heron (Steve Bird) Warming up to 26 degrees (Apr 12). CENTRAL LESVOS KALLONI SALT PANS (Apr 11, Derrick Robinson) Black Stork 2 Glossy Ibis 100 Gull-billed Tern 15 Grey Heron 20, Wood sandpipers and Little Egrets MESSA WETLAND (Apr 11, Derrick Robinson) Ferruginous Duck 1 WESTERN LESVOS PSAROPOTAMOS (Skala…
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Continue reading →: 8 & 9 April ’24Cinereous Bunting (Emberiza cineracea) A warm day (up to 23 degrees) with moderate North winds. First 2 foreign birdwatchers (Dutch) seen by the Kalloni Salt Pans… Find all sites on the map in the “Best birding sites” page. CENTRAL LESVOS (early afternoon) TSIKNIAS RIVER (Apr 9, Mirsini Kladogeni) Purple Heron…
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1-7 April ’24, update
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Continue reading →: 1-7 April ’24, updateRuppell’s Warbler (E. Galinou) A week with south winds full of Sahara dust and temperatures to reach 25 degrees. CENTRAL LESVOS SKALA KALLONI MARSH (Apr 4, E. Galinou) Barn Swallow 40 Red-rumped Swallow 2 Great Reed Warbler 1 Nightingale 1 (Apr 4, Thomas via Observado) Common Swift 10 Little Grebe…
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Continue reading →: 25 to 31 March ’24, updatePhoto of Spur-winged Plover (Vanellus spinosus) by Mirsini Kladogeni. 1 – CENTRAL LESVOS APOTHIKA (see here) Chukar 1 (Mar 25, Gavriil Kagialaris) POTAMIA (HIDDEN) RESERVOIR Pochard 2 (first spotted on Mar 24 by Stylianos Zannetos, seen again Mar 28, Tanner Coleman & 30 Mar Mirsini Kladogeni)- a rare bird for…
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