17 April ’24

Find here the HIGHLIGHT bird sightings and check for more common birds on the LINKS at the end of the post.

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 2

KALLONI SALT PANS

SW fileds (Alykes)

Ruddy Shelduck 23

Black Stork 9

Glossy Ibis 22

Red-throated Pipit 5

Montague’s Harrier 1, f

W side of salt pans

Spotted Redshank 18

Marsh Sandpipers 7

Broad-billed Sandpiper 2

Curlew Sandpiper 4

Little Stint 35

Whiskered Tern 2

KALAMI MARSH-MESSA WETLAND

Pygmy Cormorant 3

Purple Heron 1

Little Crake 1

Zitting Cisticola 2

ACHLADERI COASTAL POOL

Spotted Redshank 2

Garganey 2

Spotted Redshank (Ron Macdonald)

ALYKOUDI MARSH

Bee-eater 5

Bee-eaters (Derrick Robinson)

ERESSOS TO SIGRI TRACK

Alpine Swift 2

Peregrine Falcon 1

FANEROMENI

Citrine Wagtail 1, m (by mouth pool)

Spotted Flycatcher 1

Spotted Flycatcher (Ron Macdonald)

IPSILOU MONASTERY

Eastern Sub-alpine Warbler 6

Collared Flycatcher2

PETRIFIED FOREST PARK ROAD

Chukar 2

KAVAKI

Eastern Sub-alpine Warbler 1

No Ruppell’s Warbler reported…

HARAMIDA SHRUBLAND

Ruppell’s Warbler 2, singing males

LOUTRA VILLAGE

Laughing Dove 6

MITILINI (Unirersity Hill)

Olive-tree Warbler 1, singing male

Ruppell’s Warbler (Phil Gower)

Find all mentioned sites here!

Derrick Robinson, Steve Bird, Howard Voghan, Killian Mullarney, Phil Gower, Chris Orders, Andrew Whitehouse, Aron White, Christos Kotselis, Hollly Page, Frank Mantlik, Wolfgang Sprügel, Ivo Walsmit, Karin Langenberg, Alain Jacot, Stylianos Zannetos, Filios Akriotis

Lesvos Bird News FB group

eBird (32 checklists)

Lesvos Birders FB group

Observado (Observation) (observations from 6 sites)

Lesvos Birders WhatsApp group

Garganey (Derrick Robinson)

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