Cyprus’s best birding sites
Cyprus’s best birding sites
Paphos headland including the best spot for Greater Sandplover and the location of a drinking trough
East of Paphos including Phinikas, Aspro pools, Mandria fields and Paphos Sewage Farm
Cape Drepanum and the Avagas Gorge - including where to look for Wallcreeper in winter
Mavrokolympos Dam including where to look for ‘the showiest’ Cyprus Scops Owls, Black Francolin, Cyprus Wheatear and Cyprus Warbler
Polis and the Akamas peninsula including the Baths of Aphrodite and Ayias Minas
Troodos including details of two drinking pools where several of the endemic races can be seen at close range
Evretou and Theletra including details of a site for Long-legged Buzzard
Akrotiri including Zakaki Pool, Ladies Mile beach, Bishops Pool, Akrotiri plain, Akrotiri Salt Lake, Akrotiri Gravel pits and Phasouri reedbeds
Paralimni Lake including Sotira Pools
Ayia Napa and Cape Greco - including three of the best sites on Cyprus for turning up rarities
Oroklini marsh - a great place for wetland birds including breeding Red-crested Pochard
Larnaca including Larnaca Sewage Pools, Spiro’s Pool and beach and ‘desal fields’
The following sites are all included in my book Finding Birds in Cyprus and many are also covered in my DVD of the same title.
Click here for a sample page from one of my books
Click here for a trailer of the DVD series.
Click on any of the sites below to find photos as well as updates provided by myself or other readers. If you have further information to add to these pages, please email me at dave@easybirder.co.uk