Séjour ornithologique à Chypre du 14 au 23 avril 2017

Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean covering an area of 9250 km2. Since 1974, it is partitioned into two main parts: the area under the effective control of the Cyprus government, located in the south and west, and comprising about 59% of the island’s area, and the north, administered by the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, covering about 36% of the island’s area. Cyprus has two endemic species, the Cyprus Wheatear and the Cyprus Warbler. Other notable breeding birds include the Griffon Vulture, the Bonelli’s Eagle, the Eleonora’s Falcon, the Long-legged Buzzard, the Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, the Masked Shrike and the Cretzschmar`s Bunting. The siland lies on one of the major bird migration routes across the Mediterranean. With Africa to the south, Turkey and central Europe to the north and Syria and the Middle East to the east, and it thus very attractive in Spring and Autumn.
Samuel Desbrosses visited the southern part of the island from the 14th to the 23rd of April 2017 and he sent his richly illustrated trip report.