KALLONI GULF AREA
Messa
Ruddy Shelduck 3, Common Shelduck 6 (Eleni Galinou)
Purple Heron 1 (Eleni Galinou)
Glossy Ibis 4 (Mark Cassidy & Michael Sveikutis)
Black-winged Stilt 16, Pied Avocet 2 (Eleni Galinou)
Ruff 35, Wood Sandpiper 8 (Eleni Galinou)
Zitting Cisticola 1, Whinchat 9 (Eleni Galinou)
Steppe Buzzard 1 (Mark Cassidy & Michael Sveikutis)
Glossy Ibises & Black-winged Stilts (Eleni Galinou)
Kalloni Salt Pans
Common Shelduck 126 (Konstantinos Polypathellis)
Flamingo 977 (Konstantinos Polypathellis)
Pied Avocet 117, Black-winged Stilt 30 (Konstantinos Polypathellis)
Stone Curlew 2, Marsh Sandpiper (John Glendinning)
West parts/side
(Howard Vaughan)
Gull-billed Tern 21
Slender-billed Gull 1, Mediterranean Gull 3
South parts/side
Great Crested Grebe 9 (Steve Bird & Gina Beebe Nichol)- in the sea
Spur-winged Plover 2 (Howard Vaughan)- seen at the same time as the 1 at Tsiknias river
Whimbrel 6 (Steve Bird & Gina Beebe Nichol)- fly-overs
Great Spotted Cuckoo 2 (Mel Glendinning)
Short-toed Lark 30+, Tawny Pipit 2 (Jon Buxton & John Glendinning)
Montagu's Harrier 1, M (Steve Bird & Gina Beebe Nichol)
East parts/side
Dalmatian Pelican 1 (Howard Vaughan)
Tsiknias river lower area
Garganey 2 (Karen D'Alessandri- ebird)
Purple Heron 1 (John Barkham)
Spur-winged Plover 1 (John Glendinning & Jon Buxton)- 06:45
Bar-tailed Godwit 1 (Howard Vaughan)- 10:45- a rare bird for the island!
Caspian Tern 2 (Howard Vaughan)- along the coast
Common Cuckoo (Karen D'Alessandri- ebird)
Great Spotted Cuckoo 2 (John Glendinning & Jon Buxton)- 07:30
Bee-eater 40 (Jacco Slomp- Observado) - 10:00
Alpine Swift 4 (Howard Vaughan)
Pallid Swift 1 (Howard Vaughan)
Savi's Warbler singing (Steve Bird)- 8:00
Barred Warbler 1 (Howard Vaughan)
Pallid Harrier 1, M (Steve Bird)- 08:45
Skala Kalloni Pool
Cattle Egret 1 (Jacco Slomp- Observado)
Ennia Kamares (Christou)
Spur-winged Plover 1 (Howard Vaughan)- the 4th bird present today
Spur-winged Plover (Steve Bird)
Metochi lake
(John Glendinning)- am
Little Crake 2, M
Golden Oriole 1
Potamia valley
(Gillian Burrell)
Bee-eater 15+
Barred Warbler 1, Wood Warbler 1
Makara
(Kevin Hazelgrove)
Little Crake 2
Wood Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover
Little Crake (Kevin Hazelgrove)
WESTERN LESVOS
Faneromeni (Sigri)
(Steve Bird & Gina Beebe Nichol)
Purple Heron 1
Little Crake 2, M &F
Bee-eater 10+
Collared, Pied & Spotted Flycatchers
Sigri harbour
Scopoli's Shearwaters 200+ (Steve Bird & Gina Beebe Nichol)- following boat
Scopoli's Shearwaters (Gina beebe Nichol)
Sigri to Eresos track - "Sanatorium"
(Helen Stendman)
Bee-eater 20, Hoopoe (Helen Stendman)
Sardinian Warbler, Great Reed Warbler 2 (Helen Stendman)
Icterine Warbler 2 (Steve Bird & Gina Beebe Nichol)
Common Redstart 2, Collared Flycatcher 2 (Helen Stendman)
Lesser Kestrel 13 (Steve Bird & Gina Beebe Nichol)
Tsichliontas (Meladia) valley
(Steve Bird & Gina Beebe Nichol)
Bee-eaters
Icterine Warbler 1
Ortolan Bunting 3
Montagu's Harrier 1
Ortolan Bunting (Steve Bird)
OTHER AREAS
Agiassos
Spanish Sparrow 200+ (George Karas)
Evergetoulas river (upstream)
Black Stork 1, Little White Egret 15 (George Karas)
Agia Triada (Kalloni)
Scops Owl and Wood Nuthatch (Kevin Hazelgrove)
Kavaki (Molivos)
(Kevin Hazelgrove)
Subalpine Warbler 1, Orphean Warbler
Peregrine Falcon 1
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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Short-toed eagle (Steve Bird)
