Squacco 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 Eressos river, see here)
(Apr 11 & 12)
Garganey 13 (Wolfgang Sprügel)
Squacco Heron 2 (E. Galinou)
Night Heron 1 ( Wolfgang Sprügel)
Green Sandpiper 1 (E. Galinou)
Nightingale 2 (E. Galinou)
Olivaceous Warbler 2 (E. Galinou)
Mediterranean Gull 4 (Wolfgang Sprügel)
ERESSOS TO SIGRI TRACK (via Tsichliontas-Meladia)
(Apr 12, Wolfgang Sprügel-am, E. Galinou-pm)
Pygmy Cormorant 1
Purple Heron 4
Glossy Ibis 1
Black-winged Stilt 2

Cinereous Bunting 4 singing males
Cretzschmar’s Bunting 15+
Isabelline Wheatear 1
Black-eared Wheatear 7
Western Rock Nuthatch 1
Only the breeders up to a few road turns before the the Old Cheese Factory (“Sanatorium”), and then a clear influx of migrants (16:00):
Redstart 1
Hoopoe 1
Yellow Wagtail 40-50 mixed with
Barn Swallow 20
Tawny Pipit 2
Greater Short-toed Lark 2
Red-backed Shrike 1, male


IPSILOU MONASTERY
(Apr 12, Wolfgang Sprügel)
Sombre Tit 1
Short-toed Eagle 1
NORTHERN LESVOS
MOLIVOS RESERVOIR
(Giorgis Laskaridis)
Ruddy Shelduck 12
EASTERN LESVOS
PERAMA MARSH
(Apr 12, Panos Agiakatsikas)
Little Ringed Plover 1
Black-winged Stilt 1
HARAMIDA SHRUBLAND
(Apr 12, Valerie Karameta- Triboulot, E. Galinou)
Ruppell’s Warbler 4, singing males
Cretzschmar’s Bunting 4
Eastern Subalpine Warbler 2
Sardinian Warbler 5
Black-eared Wheatear 2

LOUTRA
(Apr 10, Aris Christidis)
Laughing Dove 6

Sites under report
CENTRAL LESVOS
Kalloni Gulf north wetlands
EASTERN LESVOS
Haramida marsh & shrubland, Loutra
NORTHERN LESVOS
Molivos (Perasma) reservoir
WESTERN LESVOS
Psaropotamos river (Skala Eressos) & Skala Eressos and Sigri villages

People reporting
Steve Bird, Wolfgang Sprügel, Valerie Karameta- Triboulot, Panos Agiakatsikas, Aris Christidis, Eleni Galinou
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