Our Lesvos Bird List

As of May 2024:  169 Species

Alpine Swift  ("Apus melba")

Avocet  ("Recurvirostra avosetta")
Barn Owl  ("Tyto alba")
Bar-tailed Godwit  ("Limosa lapponica")
Bee-eater  ("Merops apiaster")
Bittern  ("Botaurus stellaris")
Black Stork  ("Ciconia nigra")
Black Tern  ("Chlidonias niger")
Blackbird  ("Turdus merula")
Blackcap  ("Sylvia atricapilla")
Black-eared Wheatear  ("Oenanthe hispanica")
Black-headed Bunting  ("Emberiza melanocephala")
Black-headed Gull  ("Chroicocephalus ridibundus")
Black-tailed Godwit  ("Limosa limosa")
Black-winged Stilt  ("Himantopus himantopus")
Blue Rock Thrush  ("Monticola solitarius")
Blue Tit  ("Cyanistes caeruleus")
Booted Eagle  ("Hieraaetus pennatus")
Buzzard  ("Buteo buteo")
Caspian Gull  ("Larus cachinnans")
Cetti's Warbler  ("Cettia cetti")
Chaffinch  ("Fringilla coelebs")
Chukar Partridge  ("Alectoris chukar")
Cinereous Bunting  ("Emberiza cineracea")
Cirl Bunting  ("Emberiza cirlus")
Citrine Wagtail  ("Motacilla citreola")
Coal Tit  ("Periparus ater")
Collared Dove  ("Streptopelia decaocto")
Collared Flycatcher  ("Ficedula albicollis")
Collared Pratincole  ("Glareola pratincola")
Common Sandpiper  ("Actitis hypoleucos")
Common Tern  ("Sterna hirundo")
Coot  ("Fulica atra")
Cormorant  ("Phalacrocorax carbo")
Corn Bunting  ("Emberiza calandra")
Crag Martin  ("Ptyonoprogne rupestris")
Crested Lark  ("Galerida cristata")
Cretzschmar's Bunting  ("Emberiza caesia")
Curlew Sandpiper  ("Calidris ferruginea")
Dalmatian Pelican  ("Pelecanus crispus")
Eastern Bonelli's Warbler  ("Phylloscopus orientalis")
Eastern Olivaceous Warbler  ("Iduna pallida")
Eleonora's Falcon  ("Falco eleonorae")
Fan-tailed Warbler  ("Cisticola juncidis")
Garganey  ("Anas querquedula")
Glossy Ibis  ("Plegadis falcinellus")
Golden Eagle  ("Aquila chrysaetos")
Golden Oriole  ("Oriolus oriolus")
Goldfinch  ("Carduelis carduelis")
Goshawk  ("Accipiter gentilis")
Great Reed Warbler  ("Acrocephalus arundinaceus")
Great Spotted Woodpecker  ("Dendrocopos major")
Great Tit  ("Parus major")
Great White Egret  ("Ardea alba")
Greater Flamingo  ("Phoenicopterus roseus")
Green Sandpiper  ("Tringa ochropus")
Greenfinch  ("Chloris chloris")
Greenshank  ("Tringa nebularia")
Grey Heron  ("Ardea cinerea")
Gull-billed Tern  ("Gelochelidon nilotica")
Hen Harrier  ("Circus cyaneus")
Hobby  ("Falco subbuteo")
Hooded Crow  ("Corvus cornix")
Hoopoe  ("Upupa epops")
House Martin  ("Delichon urbicum")
House Sparrow  ("Passer domesticus")
Icterine Warbler  ("Hippolais icterina")
Isabelline Wheatear  ("Oenanthe isabellina")
Jackdaw  ("Corvus monedula")
Jay  ("Garrulus glandarius")
Kentish Plover  ("Charadrius alexandrinus")
Kestrel  ("Falco tinnunculus")
Krüper's Nuthatch  ("Sitta krueperi")
Laughing Dove  ("spilopelia senegalensis")
Lesser Grey Shrike  ("Lanius minor")
Lesser Kestrel  ("Falco naumanni")
Lesser Whitethroat  ("Sylvia curruca")
Levant Sparrowhawk  ("Accipiter brevipes")
Linnet  ("Carduelis cannabina")
Little Bittern  ("Ixobrychus minutus")
Little Crake  ("Porzana parva")
Little Egret  ("Egretta garzetta")
Little Grebe  ("Tachybaptus ruficollis")
Little Owl  ("Athene noctua")
Little Ringed Plover  ("Charadrius dubius")
Little Stint  ("Calidris minuta")
Little Tern  ("Sternula albifrons")
Long-eared Owl  ("Asio otus")
Long-legged Buzzard  ("Buteo rufinus")
Mallard  ("Anas platyrhynchos")
Marsh Harrier  ("Circus aeruginosus")
Marsh Sandpiper  ("Tringa stagnatilis")
Masked Shrike  ("Lanius nubicus")
Middle Spotted Woodpecker  ("Dendrocopos medius")
Montagu's Harrier  ("Circus pygargus")
Moorhen  ("Gallinula chloropus")
Night-heron  ("Nycticorax nycticorax")
Nightingale  ("Luscinia megarhynchos")
Olive-tree Warbler  ("Hippolais olivetorum")
Ortolan Bunting  ("Emberiza hortulana")
Osprey  ("Pandion haliaetus")
Penduline Tit  ("Remiz pendulinus")
Peregrine  ("Falco peregrinus")
Pied Wagtail  ("Motacilla alba")
Pied Wheatear  ("Oenanthe pleschanka")
Purple Heron  ("Ardea purpurea")
Pygmy Cormorant  ("microcarbo pygmeus")
Rüppell's Warbler  ("Sylvia rueppelli")
Raven  ("Corvus corax")
Red-backed Shrike  ("Lanius collurio")
Red-breasted Flycatcher  ("Ficedula parva")
Red-footed Falcon  ("Falco vespertinus")
Red-rumped Swallow  ("Cecropis daurica")
Red-throated Pipit  ("Anthus cervinus")
Reed Bunting  ("Emberiza schoeniclus")
Reed Warbler  ("Acrocephalus scirpaceus")
Ringed Plover  ("Charadrius hiaticula")
Robin  ("Erithacus rubecula")
Rock Dove / Feral Pigeon  ("Columba livia")
Rock Sparrow  ("Petronia petronia")
Roller  ("Coracias garrulus")
Rose-coloured Starling  ("Pastor roseus")
Rough-legged Buzzard  ("Buteo lagopus")
Ruddy Shelduck  ("Tadorna ferruginea")
Ruff  ("Philomachus pugnax")
Rufous Bush Chat  ("Cercotrichas galactotes")
Sand Martin  ("Riparia riparia")
Sardinian Warbler  ("Sylvia melanocephala")
Savi's Warbler  ("Locustella luscinioides")
Scops Owl  ("Otus scops")
Sedge Warbler  ("Acrocephalus schoenobaenus")
Serin  ("Serinus serinus")
Shelduck  ("Tadorna tadorna")
Short-toed Eagle  ("Circaetus gallicus")
Short-toed Lark  ("Calandrella brachydactyla")
Short-toed Treecreeper  ("Certhia brachydactyla")
Skylark  ("Alauda arvensis")
Sombre Tit  ("Poecile lugubris")
Spanish Sparrow  ("Passer hispaniolensis")
Spoonbill  ("Platalea leucorodia")
Spotted Crake  ("Porzana porzana")
Spotted Flycatcher  ("Muscicapa striata")
Spotted Redshank  ("Tringa erythropus")
Spur-winged Lapwing  ("Vanellus spinosus")
Squacco Heron  ("Ardeola ralloides")
Stonechat (rubicola)  ("Saxicola torquatus rubicola")
Stone-curlew  ("Burhinus oedicnemus")
Subalpine Warbler  ("Sylvia cantillans")
Swallow  ("Hirundo rustica")
Swift  ("Apus apus")
Tawny Pipit  ("Anthus campestris")
Temminck's Stint  ("Calidris temminckii")
Turtle Dove  ("Streptopelia turtur")
Water Rail  ("Rallus aquaticus")
Western Rock Nuthatch  ("Sitta neumayer")
Wheatear  ("Oenanthe oenanthe")
Whinchat  ("Saxicola rubetra")
Whiskered Tern  ("Chlidonias hybrida")
White Stork  ("Ciconia ciconia")
Whitethroat  ("Sylvia communis")
White-winged Black Tern  ("Chlidonias leucopterus")
Willow Warbler  ("Phylloscopus trochilus")
Wood Sandpiper  ("Tringa glareola")
Woodchat Shrike  ("Lanius senator")
Woodlark  ("Lullula arborea")
Yelkouan Shearwater  ("Puffinus yelkouan")
Yellow Wagtail  ("Motacilla flava")
Yellow Wagtail (flava)  ("Motacilla flava flava")
Yellowhammer  ("Emberiza citrinella")
Yellow-legged Gull  ("Larus michahellis")

Yellow Wagtail (feldegg)  ("Motacilla flava feldegg")