AKROTIRI PENINSULA TODAY 29 August

[June Neal]

The BirdLife Cyprus field meeting and start of the autumn raptor count started off very well

Little Egret 5+

Demoiselle Crane c97

Spoonbill 1

Greater Flamingo 1755 including a melanistic bird

Lesser Grey Shrike 3

Grey Heron 72+

European Honey Buzzard 72+

Western Marsh Harrier 2

Ring-tailed Harrier 1

Eleonora's Falcon 1 dark morph

European Bee-eater 1

Eurasian Hoopoe 2

Pallid and Common Swifts

Red-rumped Swallow 6+

Yellow Wagtails

Sardinian Warbler 2

Red-backed Shrike 1

Lesser Grey Shrike 6

Agios Georgios Church morning

Eurasian Hoopoe 1 (1 more in the afternoon)

Red-backed Shrike 1

Lesser Grey Shrike 1

afternoon

Collared Flycatcher 1 female

Bishop's Pool

Little Grebe 27+

Little Egret 14+

Mallard 2

Northern Shoveler 1 male in eclipse

Black-winged Stilt 7+

Marsh Sandpiper

Wood Sandpiper 2

Common Sandpiper 1

Eurasian Hoopoe 2

Northern House Martin 7+

Sand Martins

Willow Warbler 3+

Lady's Mile

Black-winged Stilt 2 juveniles

Common Ringed Plover 1

Kentish Plover 26+

Little Stint 13

Marsh Sandpiper 1

Common Greenshank 1

Red-backed Shrike 1

Akrotiri Marsh (formerly known as Phasouri Reed-beds)

Little Egret 2

Glossy Ibis 2

Black Kite 1

Western Marsh Harrier 3 females

Peregrine Falcon 1

Yellow Wagtail 4

Red-backed Shrike 1 female

Lesser Grey Shrike 2 males

Phasouri fields

Red-backed Shrike 1 female

Lesser Grey Shrike 6+

Black-headed Wagtail 7+

[lamsdell]

Akrotiri Marsh (formerly known as Phasouri Reed-beds) - why the change - when someowhere has been called that since at least the 1970s ?

 

Chris

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From: cyprus...@googlegroups.com [mailto:cyprus...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of June Neal
Sent: 29 August 2015 14:14
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Subject: [cyprus-birds] AKROTIRI PENINSULA TODAY 29 August

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[chris.june.neal]

Hi Chris

The name change is following consultation with the locals who live in, near or use the area as part of the Darwin Project which BLC won.  Locals complained that this is not the ‘local’ term for the site and that the real name is Akrotiri Marsh or Λιβάδι Ακρωτηρίου in Greek.  BLC made the change because local support for the project is very important. The change has been adopted by Darwin.

We think it would be good to make sure the Calendar uses the same terminologies and to consider to what extent we can use these terminologies for the birdwatching records also in the future.

You'll find a description on BLC's Projects page

http://www.birdlifecyprus.org/en/html-151-.html

On BirdLine I have very little time for a message so I'll continue using Phasouri Reedbeds until the Akrotiri Marsh is better recognised but on the web page and the new googlegroup I've begun adding the two names to get people used to it.

I hope this helps.

Best regards

June

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From: "lamsdell" <lams...@tiscali.co.uk>
To: cyprus...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, 1 September, 2015 1:07:18 AM
Subject: RE: [cyprus-birds] AKROTIRI PENINSULA TODAY 29 August

[lamsdell]

this sometimes happens when sites get taken over by conservation organisations, they get given a new or slightly different name for a variety of reasons

 

it is the linking old historical records - which to be honest are far more interesting than what the site has produced in recent years due to it condition - still remember the photo of X number of White Storks, everywhere, when the area by the eucalyptus trees was mostly grass, where as now there is nothing but dense reed, which last year was encroaching into the road, 

 

 

Chris

 

 

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