Here are the highlights of our monitoring along the eastern coast of the Kalloni Gulf (Nifida to Messa) and a few more wetlands of the northern parts conducted on 8 and 10 December.
Nifida marsh and sea
Shag 12
Great White Egret 1, Grey Heron 1
Meadow Pipit 6
Shags
Black-headed and Mediterranean Gulls
Polchnitos Salt Pans and sea
Mallard 15
Greater Flamingo 174
Among them were two birds with plastic rings (white with black letters):
- "Τ | HCP" ringed in Turkey as a chick in 2007 (15 years old!) and controlled (re-recorded): on16/02/22 by the Kalloni Salt Pans (St. Zannetos), on 27/02/2022 by Messa wetland (M. Bakas) and on 5/3/2014 by the Kalloni Pans (E. Galinou)
- "Τ | FHN" ringed in Turkey as a chick in 2009 (13 years old!) and was controlled previously on 3/10/14 by the Kalloni Salt Pans (E. Galinou).
Great White Egret 2, Grey Heron 6
Little White Egret 4, Black Stork 2
Grey Plover 2, Redshank 16
Dunlin 68, Kentish Plovers 36
Pied Avocet 1
Greater Flamingo with a plastic ring
Another Greater Flamingo with a ring
Black Stork
Dunlins and Flamingos
Alikoudi marsh
Yellow-legged Gull 57
Black-headed Gull 3
Goldfinch 29, Chaffinch 11
Corn Bunting 11
Yellow-legged Gull
Arhaia Pyrra sea area
Black-headed Gull 200
Mediterranean Gull 60
Marsh Harrier 1
Shags (immature and adult)
Messa wetland
Common Shelduck 12, Ruddy Shelduck 2
Dalmatian Pelican 1, Spoonbill 1
Greater Flamingo 60
Ennia Kamares (Christou)
Dalmatian Pelican 1
Spoonbill 6, Black Stork 1
Kalloni Salt Pans (incomplete)
Dalmatian Pelicans 12 (Michael Bakas)
Black Stork 3
Greater Flamingo 1000
Tsiknias river mouth area
Greenshank 1
Kingfisher 1