Birds to See in Cyprus in March
148 species listed for March · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
148 bird species on our list for Cyprus are recorded regularly in March. Of these, the most often recorded are Barn Swallow, Hooded Crow, House Sparrow, Sardinian Warbler and Kestrel. New this month: Yellow Wagtail, Hoopoe, Squacco Heron and Wood Sandpiper and 36 more.
New in March40
- Yellow Wagtail
- Hoopoe
- Squacco Heron
- Wood Sandpiper
- Wheatear
- Black-crowned Night-heron
- Lesser Whitethroat
- Common Reed-warbler
- Purple Heron
- Eurasian Jay
- Woodchat Shrike
- Garganey
- Nightingale
- Pallid Swift
- Sand Martin
- Tree Pipit
- Whitethroat
- Common Redstart
- Short-toed Lark
- Sedge Warbler
- Gull-billed Tern
- Subalpine Warbler
- Wood Warbler
- Cuckoo
- Wryneck
- Brambling
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Sanderling
- Curlew
- Tufted Duck
- Northern Goshawk
- Spotted Crake
- Merlin
- Hooded Wheatear
- Savi's Warbler
- Eurasian Bittern
- Avocet
- Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush
- Short-eared Owl
- Eurasian Oystercatcher
Leaving after last month4
Residents
(41)Recorded all year
Hooded Crow
Corvus cornixLC
Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Sardinian Warbler
Curruca melanocephalaLC
Recorded all year
Kestrel
Falco tinnunculusLC
Recorded all year
Woodpigeon
Columba palumbusLC
Recorded all year
Greenfinch
Chloris chlorisLC
Recorded all year
European Goldfinch
Carduelis carduelisLC
Recorded all year
Cetti's Warbler
Cettia cettiLC
Recorded all year
Great Tit
Parus majorLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year
Yellow-legged Gull
Larus michahellisLC
Recorded all year
Magpie
Pica picaLC
Recorded all year
Chukar
Alectoris chukarLC
Recorded all year
Corn Bunting
Emberiza calandraLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Chaffinch
Fringilla coelebsLC
Recorded all year
Jackdaw
Coloeus monedulaLC
Recorded all year
Moorhen
Gallinula chloropusLC
Recorded all year
Serin
Serinus serinusLC
Regularly Oct–Aug
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Recorded all year
Mallard
Anas platyrhynchosLC
Recorded all year
Coot
Fulica atraLC
Recorded all year
Linnet
Linaria cannabinaLC
Recorded all year
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Recorded all year
Little Grebe
Tachybaptus ruficollisLC
Recorded all year
Green Sandpiper
Tringa ochropusLC
Recorded all year
Greater Flamingo
Phoenicopterus roseusLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Kentish Plover
Charadrius alexandrinusLC
Recorded all year
European Shag
Gulosus aristotelisLC
Recorded all year
Little Owl
Athene noctuaLC
Recorded all year
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Recorded all year
Blackbird
Turdus merulaLC
Recorded all year
Coal Tit
Periparus aterLC
Recorded all year
Bonelli's Eagle
Aquila fasciataLC
Recorded all year
Great Crested Grebe
Podiceps cristatusLC
Recorded all year
Red-crested Pochard
Netta rufinaLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Short-toed Treecreeper
Certhia brachydactylaLC
Recorded all year
Grey Wagtail
Motacilla cinereaLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Wren
Troglodytes troglodytesLC
Recorded all year
Crag Martin
Ptyonoprogne rupestrisLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(20)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Feb–Oct
Common Swift
Apus apusLC
Regularly Feb–Sep
Hoopoe
Upupa epopsLC
Regularly Mar–Oct
House Martin
Delichon urbicumLC
Regularly Feb–Sep
Yellow Wagtail
Motacilla flavaLC
Regularly Mar–Nov
Ruff
Calidris pugnaxLC
Regularly Feb–Nov
Alpine Swift
Tachymarptis melbaLC
Regularly Feb–Oct
Common Reed-warbler
Acrocephalus scirpaceusLC
Regularly Mar–Nov
Wood Sandpiper
Tringa glareolaLC
Regularly Mar–Oct
Eurasian Stone-curlew
Burhinus oedicnemusLC
Recorded all year
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Recorded all year
Purple Heron
Ardea purpureaLC
Regularly Mar–Oct
Greenshank
Tringa nebulariaLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Regularly Mar–Jan
Eurasian Jay
Garrulus glandariusLC
Regularly Mar–Jan
Pallid Swift
Apus pallidusLC
Regularly Mar–Sep
Ringed Plover
Charadrius hiaticulaLC
Regularly Feb–Dec
Squacco Heron
Ardeola ralloidesLC
Regularly Mar–Nov
Red Crossbill
Loxia curvirostraLC
Regularly Feb–Dec
Northern Goshawk
Astur gentilisLC
Regularly Mar–Jan
Winter visitors
(46)Present outside the breeding season
Pied Wagtail
Motacilla albaLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Chiffchaff
Phylloscopus collybitaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Stonechat
Saxicola rubicolaLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Meadow Pipit
Anthus pratensisLC
Regularly Nov–Mar
Blackcap
Sylvia atricapillaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Black Redstart
Phoenicurus ochrurosLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Western Marsh-harrier
Circus aeruginosusLC
Regularly Aug–May
Song Thrush
Turdus philomelosLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Recorded all year
Northern Shoveler
Spatula clypeataLC
Regularly Aug–May
Eurasian Teal
Anas creccaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
European Robin
Erithacus rubeculaLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Common Snipe
Gallinago gallinagoLC
Regularly Aug–May
Blue Rock-thrush
Monticola solitariusLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Black-headed Gull
Chroicocephalus ridibundusLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucosLC
Regularly Jul–May
Buzzard
Buteo buteoLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Eurasian Skylark
Alauda arvensisLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Water Pipit
Anthus spinolettaLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Little Stint
Calidris minutaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Common Kingfisher
Alcedo atthisLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Sparrowhawk
Accipiter nisusLC
Regularly Aug–May
Spotted Redshank
Tringa erythropusLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Common Starling
Sturnus vulgarisLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Northern Pintail
Anas acutaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Dunlin
Calidris alpinaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Bluethroat
Luscinia svecicaLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Golden Plover
Pluvialis apricariaLC
Regularly Nov–Apr
Redshank
Tringa totanusLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Eurasian Siskin
Spinus spinusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Water Rail
Rallus aquaticusLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Woodlark
Lullula arboreaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Hen Harrier
Circus cyaneusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Gadwall
Mareca streperaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Jack Snipe
Lymnocryptes minimusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Regularly Dec–Apr
Mediterranean Gull
Ichthyaetus melanocephalusLC
Regularly Jul–Mar
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Aug–Apr
Moustached Warbler
Acrocephalus melanopogonLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Pochard
Aythya ferinaVU
Regularly Sep–Mar
Eurasian Wigeon
Mareca penelopeLC
Regularly Nov–Mar
Common Shelduck
Tadorna tadornaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Reed Bunting
Emberiza schoeniclusLC
Regularly Nov–Mar
Black-necked Grebe
Podiceps nigricollisLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Passage migrants
(40)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Wheatear
Oenanthe oenantheLC
Regularly Sep–May
Lesser Whitethroat
Curruca currucaLC
Regularly Mar–Oct
Short-toed Lark
Calandrella brachydactylaLC
Regularly Mar–Sep
Little Ringed Plover
Thinornis dubiusLC
Regularly Feb–Nov
Common Redstart
Phoenicurus phoenicurusLC
Regularly Sep–May
Garganey
Spatula querquedulaLC
Regularly Mar–Oct
Nightingale
Luscinia megarhynchosLC
Regularly Mar–Sep
Subalpine Warbler
Curruca cantillansLC
Regularly Mar–Apr
Whitethroat
Curruca communisLC
Regularly Mar–Sep
Tree Pipit
Anthus trivialisLC
Regularly Mar–Oct
Sedge Warbler
Acrocephalus schoenobaenusLC
Regularly Mar–Oct
Sand Martin
Riparia ripariaLC
Regularly Mar–Oct
Wryneck
Jynx torquillaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Eurasian Spoonbill
Platalea leucorodiaLC
Regularly Sep–May
Common Quail
Coturnix coturnixLC
Regularly Feb–Apr
Woodchat Shrike
Lanius senatorNT
Regularly Mar–Sep
Black-tailed Godwit
Limosa limosaNT
Regularly Mar–Sep
Audouin's Gull
Ichthyaetus audouiniiVU
Regularly Feb–Sep
Common Raven
Corvus coraxLC
Regularly Aug–May
Griffon Vulture
Gyps fulvusLC
Regularly Dec–Sep
Curlew
Numenius arquataNT
Regularly Aug–Apr
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Ruddy Shelduck
Tadorna ferrugineaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Cuckoo
Cuculus canorusLC
Regularly Mar–Jun
Little Gull
Hydrocoloeus minutusLC
Regularly Feb–Mar
Savi's Warbler
Locustella luscinioidesLC
Regularly Mar–Apr
Spotted Crake
Porzana porzanaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Regularly Mar–Sep
Short-eared Owl
Asio flammeusLC
Regularly Mar–Apr
Barn Owl
Tyto albaLC
Regularly Feb–Dec
Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush
Monticola saxatilisLC
Regularly Mar–Apr
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Aug–Apr
Eurasian Bittern
Botaurus stellarisLC
Regularly Mar–Apr
Wood Warbler
Phylloscopus sibilatrixLC
Regularly Mar–May
Brambling
Fringilla montifringillaLC
Regularly Nov–Mar
Hooded Wheatear
Oenanthe monachaLC
Regularly Mar–Apr
Temminck's Stint
Calidris temminckiiLC
Regularly Aug–May
Avocet
Recurvirostra avosettaLC
Regularly Mar–Oct
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Tufted Duck
Aythya fuligulaLC
Regularly Nov–Mar
Scarce visitors
(1)Recorded in some years but not every year
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made