Lake Kerkini is an astonishing place in northern Greece. Mrs Sciencebase and I visited in June 2024. I’ve put together galleries of the butterflies and moths we saw on our trip, trekking and boating in the area. I took rather a lot of photos and have only now got around to processing the birds. We … Continue reading "Birds of Lake Kerkini and surroundings"
Lake Kerkini is an astonishing place in northern Greece. Mrs Sciencebase and I visited in June 2024. I’ve put together galleries of the butterflies and moths we saw on our trip, trekking and boating in the area.
Lake Kerkini fishermen
I took rather a lot of photos and have only now got around to processing the birds. We saw a lot of birds, tens of thousands of them were Common Cormorant, hundreds were Great White Pelican and Dalmation Pelican, lots were herons and egrets of various species, Spoonbills, a handful of Nightingales, fleeting glimpses of Hoopoe (sadly), a solitary Glossy Ibis, and just the vocalisations of Sardinian Warbler, Cirl Bunting, and a few others no solid sightings. Merlin app also picked up a few that we didn’t see nor hear, and are possibles but questions that will never be answered, such as Wryneck, Thrush Nightingale, Hawfinch, Red Crossbill.
Grey Heron and chicks
Here’s a near-complete list of the at least 90 species of bird we saw and heard. I suspect we also saw Lesser Kestrel and Eleanora’s Falcon at some point without getting positive IDs on those two:
Bee-eater, European (Merops apiaster)
Blackbird, Common (Turdus merula)
Blackcap, Eurasian (Sylvia atricapilla)
Bunting, Cirl (Emberiza cirlus) (heard only or Merlin)
Buzzard, Common (Buteo buteo)
Buzzard, Honey (Pernis apivorus)
Chaffinch, Eurasian (Fringilla coelebs)
Chiffchaff, Common (Phylloscopus collybita)
Coot, Eurasian (Fulica atra)
Cormorant, Great (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Cormorant, Pygmy (Microcarbo pygmaeus)
Crossbill, Red (Loxia curvirostra) (heard only or Merlin)
Crow, Carrion (Corvus corone)
Crow, Hooded (Corvus cornix)
Cuckoo, Common (Cuculus canorus)
Dove, Collared (Streptopelia decaocto)
Dove, Turtle (Streptopelia turtur)
Eagle, Booted (Hieraaetus pennatus) Michael d only
Egret, Little (Egretta garzetta)
Firecrest, Common (Regulus ignicapillus)
Flamingo, Greater (Phoenicopterus roseus)
Flycatcher, Spotted (Muscicapa striata)
Goldcrest (Regulus regulus)
Goldfinch, European (Carduelis carduelis)
Grebe, Great Crested (Podiceps cristatus)
Greenfinch, European (Chloris chloris) (heard only or Merlin)
Gull, Black-headed (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
Gull, Caspian (Larus cachinnans)
Gull, Yellow-legged (Larus michahellis)
Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes) (heard only or Merlin)
Heron, Grey (Ardea cinerea)
Heron, Night (Nycticorax nycticorax)
Heron, Squacco (Ardeola ralloides)
Hobby, Eurasian (Falco subbuteo)
Hoopoe, Eurasian (Upupa epops)
Ibis, Glossy (Plegadis falcinellus)
Jackdaw, Eurasian (Corvus monedula)
Jay, Eurasian (Garrulus glandarius)
Kestrel, Common (Falco tinnunculus)
Kingfisher, Common (Alcedo atthis) (heard only or Merlin)
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