Βird news - April 19, 2022

Bird news
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KALLONI GULF AREA

Vouvaris river mouth

Black Stork 1

Messa

Spur-winged Plover 1 (Eric Cameron- ebird)

Northern Lapwing 1 (Steve Bird & Gina Beebe Nichol)

Marsh Sandpiper 2, Little Stint 5 (Eric Cameron- ebird)

Olivaceous Warbler 1 (Eric Cameron- ebird)

Steppe Buzzard 1 (Steve Bird & Gina Beebe Nichol)

Kalloni Pans 

Ruddy Shelduck 12 (Karen D' Alessandri- ebird)

Quail calling (Paul Manning)

Gull-billed Tern 17 (Jeff Bailey)

Sandwich Tern 3  (John Glendinning)- along coast

Greater Short-toed Lark 32 (Steve Bird & Gina Beebe Nichol)- am | 53 (John Glendinning)- pm

Red-throated Pipit 9  (John Glendinning)- pm

Montagu's Harrier 2, M (Paul Manning)

Harrier ringtail 1 (Paul Manning)

Pallid Harrier 1 (Paul Manning)

Red-footed Falcon 1, M, by saltpan entrance, on wires (John Glendinning)- pm

Tsiknias river lower area

Garganey 2

Purple Heron 1, Glossy Ibis 20 (John Glendinning)

Purple Heron 8, fly-overs (Steve Bird & Gine Beebe Nichol)

Little Crake 1 (Paul Manning)

Whimbrel 1 (John Glendinning)

Red-throated Pipit 1 (Paul Manning)

Citrine Wagtail 1, F (Steve Bird & Gine Beebe Nichol)- pm

Pallid Harrier 1, M (John Glendinning)

Yelkouan Shearwater 6, off-shore (John Glendinning)

Skala Kallonis

Cattle Egret 1 (Jacco Slomp- Observado)- behind Pasiphae Hotel

Ennia Kamares (Christou)

(Jon Buxton)

Glossy Ibis 2, fly-overs

Curlew Sandpiper 1

Little Stint 10+, Greenshank 4, Kentish Plover 10+

Metochi lake

Golden Oriole 3, Collared Flycatcher 1 (Kevin Hazelgrove), in olive groves

Potamia valley

(Efterpi Marmarou)

Masked Shrike 1

Great Reed Warbler 1

WESTERN LESVOS

Faneromeni

Purple Heron 6 (Kevin Hazelgrove- LB FB)

Spotted Crake 1 (John Barrel)- pm

Little Crake 2 (John Barrel)- pm

Spur-winged Plover 1 (Mel Greenhaigh)

Roller 1 - 1st SPRING ARRIVAL (Kevin Hazelgrove- LB FB)

Bee-eater 20+ - 1st SPRING ARRIVAL(Kevin Hazelgrove- LB FB)

Turtle Dove 12+ (Kevin Hazelgrove- LB FB)

Hoopoe 2+ (Kevin Hazelgrove- LB FB)

Citrine Wagtail 1 (Kevin Hazelgrove- LB FB)

Tree Pipit 3 (Kevin Hazelgrove- LB FB)

Common Redstart 2 (Kevin Hazelgrove- LB FB)

Barred Warbler 1 (John Barrel)- pm

Golden Oriole 2 (Kevin Hazelgrove- LB FB)

Ortolan Bunting 1 (Kevin Hazelgrove- LB FB)

Long-legged Buzard 1 (Kevin Hazelgrove- LB FB)

Little Owl 1 (Kevin Hazelgrove- LB FB)

Many Spotted, Collared & Pied Flycatchers, Whinchats (Kevin Hazelgrove- LB FB)

Bee-eaters (Kevin Hazelgrove)
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Tsichliontas (Meladia) valley

(Kevin Hazelgrove- LB FB)

Common Cuckoo 1

Eastern Orphean Warbler 1

Collared, Pied & Spotted Flycatchers

Spanish Sparrow flock

Ortolan Bunting (Kevin Hazelgrove)
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NORTHERN LESVOS

Vafeios area

(Stefanos Karafyllis- LB FB)

Hoopoe 1

Collared Flycatcher 1, Pied Flycatcher 1

Masked Shrike 1

Masked Shrike (Stefanos Karafyllis)
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OTHER AREAS

Dipi, Gera Gulf

Spur-winged plover 1 (Makis Axiotis)

Spur-winged Plover (Makis Axiotis)
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Complete checklists submitted online can be accessed here:

e-bird  (updated throughout the year and where we submit the Kalloni EIC records in the long term)

observado- lesvos (active during April-May and September by Dutch visitor birders)

bird-track (by British visitor birders)

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Please, submit your records via the above databases, share them on Facebook (Lesvos Bird News or Lesvos Birders groups), or send them directly to us here.

Yellow Wagtails (Fokion Theodorou)
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Hirundines by Haramida (Valerie Κarameta Triboulot)
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