Enjoying Bird Watching on Rhodes,Greece
July 12th, 2010Greece offers a plentiful of flora and fauna with a unique kind of biodiversity. Because of its climate, natural features and location one can find a great diversity of fauna and flora here ranging from unique and rare to common and endangered ones.
With the enrichment of multiple ecological systems, Rhodes Island becomes a unique place on planet earth. Many of the people do not know that Rhodes Island is the habitat of more than three hundred species of birds. Rhodes being a nomadic place gets enriched with a variety of birds during spring and summer seasons.
Bird Watching in Rhodes Island:
Rhodes Island offers a variety of amazing bird kinds during your arrival for holidays. The most interesting think with bird watching on the Greek Island of Rhodes is that you have the chance to watch some of the most rare birds of the world. Your tour to Island Rhodes must include bird watching activity.
Sites for Bird watching in Rhodes:
You can see a variety of birds’ species in Rhodes Island while enjoying Birds Watching activity. However a large number is found in wetlands, lake areas and dams. One of the sites for bird watching is Apolakkia dam.
Other great spots for enjoying Bird Watching in Rhodes Island is Ialyssos, Kalithea, Gadoura river mouth, Ixia, Kremasti Bridge, Koskinou and different spots along the coastline of Rhodes.
Tourists can also pay a visit to Profitis Ilias and attavyros but they don’t carry a wide variety of birds. At Attavyros and Profitis Ilias you can only find some common birds like vultures, hawks, Peregrine falcons, eagles and owls.
Birds Species on Rhodes Island:
You can watch a variety of appealing birds’ species on Rhodes Island as mentioned above. Some of the widespread species of birds in Rhodes include Collared Dove, Blue Tit, Crested Lark, Sardinian Warbler and House Sparrow.
Sighting of some rare species of birds is also reported by the birders that come here. These rare species of birds include Baillon’s Crakes, Short-toed Larks, White-tailed Lapwing, Trumpeter Finch, Black-headed Bunting and many more.
Apart from a number of Mediterranean birds, some of the most appealing species of this region are Cretzschmar’s Bunting, Golden Oriole & Eagle, White-winged Black Tern, Long-Legged Buzzard, Calandra lark, Audouin’s Gull and Lanner Falcon. You can also find here the very rare Bonelli’s Eagles which are one of the endangered species.
Where to Enjoy Bird Watching?
In mornings, you can avail the opportunity to watch a variety of birds especially at Ialysos, its beach and residential area where you can find a number of Spanish birds.
Some of the amazing birds like Great Reed Warblers, White-tailed Lapwing, Baillon’s Crakes, Squacco Heron, Glossy Ibis, Great Snipe and Yellow Wagtails can be seen at the river near Kresmati town as well as Kresmatis Bridge .
If you are an avid bird watcher then Rhodes Island has some of the best places for you to enjoy bird watching. Natural bird watching sites carry a blend of birds’ species in their natural habitat and are a real fun and entertainment for all the visitors.
For bird watching, Rhodes Island offers a great experience, and you can find some of the rare species and endangered species of birds in Rhodes.