North Cyprus Birdwatching
I'm currently giving this website a major overhaul so please bear with me for the many unfinished pages, thank you.
Bird photography and birdwatching information for North Cyprus
Centre picture - Cyprus Pied Wheatear.
Top row left to right - Bee Eater/Black-headed Wagtail/Bee Eater.
2nd row - Red-backed Shrike/Honey Buzzard.
3rd row - Sardinian Warbler/Lesser Grey Shrike.
Bottom row - Black-eared Wheatear/Black Francolin/Willow Warbler.
392 species have been recorded in Cyprus (correct as of 31st December 2010); of these around 200 occur regularly on passage making the island ideal for bird watching in spring and autumn.
Cyprus has two endemic species, Cyprus Wheater (Oenanthe cypriaca) and Cyprus Warbler (Sylvia melanothorax), both being fairly common and easily found.
In addition there are four endemic subspecies, Cyprus Scops Owl (Otus scops cyprius), Coal Tit (Parus ater cypriotes), Short-toed Treecreeper (Certhia brachydactyla dorotheae) and Jay (Garrulus glandarius glaszneri).
Link to Birdlife Cyprus Checklist of Cyprus Birds
North Cyprus has suffered less from development than the south and offers wonderful opportunities to see birds whether being island specialities or migrants passing through to their summer or wintering areas. At the best places in the right season spectacular numbers and a huge variety of birds can be present but great birds can turn up almost anywhere at any time.
The following pages offer my photographs of birds taken in Cyprus as well as suggestions as where to go and other supplementary information.
My bird pictures can be downloaded for use elsewhere without permission by right clicking and selecting “save picture as” but please credit them to www.kibrisbirds.net
If you want to help birds and wildlife please consider joining Kuskor the North Cyprus Society for the Protection of Birds and Nature, click the link below for more information.
Click here to go to Kuskor website
For discussion, latest sightings and much more the Kuskor Yahoo group is an excellent resource, click the link below for more information.
Click here to visit the Kuskor Yahoo Group
Obviously I don't have pictures of all the birds found in Cyprus, only those I've been lucky to see well enough to photograph. Some are better quality than others but I'm always trying to improve species shots, some are record shots only.
Most of the photographs have been taken with a Canon 400D or 550D coupled with a Canon 100-400 IS lens. Some of the older pictures were digiscoped images produced using a Swarovski AT80 scope coupled with a Nikon coolpix compact digital camera.
Current Cyprus Time
(UK time + 2 hours)
Click Green Clock for more time and date details plus full weather forecast for the region
References used for this website
Birdlife Cyprus - http://www.birdlifecyprus.org
Collins Bird Guide (Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney, Dan Zetterström and Peter J. Grant)
Cyprus Bird Reports, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 published by Birdlife Cyprus
The Birds of Cyprus (Flint & Stewart)
Yahoo Groups Kuskor Page
Where to watch Birds in Northern Cyprus (Steve Cale)
www.kuskor.org
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