Akrotiri Marsh

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Lady's Mile Salt Lake and Beach, in the Akrotiri, Limassol District of Cyprus

Driving and taking shots at Lady's Mile Salt Lake and Beach in the Akrotiri, Limassol District of Cyprus.

Lady's Mile offers wonderful, shallow clear waters, a family friendly and safe beach to spend your time swimming, walking or exploring the salt lake and taking photos of the flamingos.


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Camera: Sony Action Camera - fdr-x1000v
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The Edge of Cyprus - Akrotiri Kormakiti

Short clip from the edge of Cyprus from Akrotiri Kormakiti.
Watch till the end :)

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Isolated by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (
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Cyprus: akrotiri salt lake

A video

Akrotiri lemesos

AERIAL AKROTIRI PENINSULA Cyprus - unedited

Salt Lake Akrotiri, October 2015

Birding Akrotiri 18-5-14

All footage and pictures belong to me. Please use 720 HD and fullscreen for best results. Intro is just a few select photos of the species included in the Video that follows.

*Note How the Little Tern can fly backwards!

Birds included:
Little Tern,
Great Reed Warbler,
Little Grebe,
Bar-Tailed Godwit,
Little Stint.

Music: Tom Petty - Learning to Fly. (I do not own rights to this song nor intend for it to be illegally distributed!)

Equipment: Canon SX50HS, Canon 7D EOS 400mm EF-USM f5.6
Software: Lightroom, Sony Vegas.
Locations - Ladies Mile, Zakaki Marsh.

*Note some footage is slowed down.

Drift Cy Limasol(port)

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Rare Black Flamingo in Akrotiri Limassol Cy

Rare Black Flamingo

An extremely rare black flamingo, thought to be only one in the world, has been filmed on the island of Cyprus.

The footage was captured on Wednesday and shows the black flamingo surrounded by more conventionally coloured birds feeding on the banks of Aktoriri salt lake on the island that lies in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
The bird is almost entirely black except for a tuft of white feathers on its rear and was spotted by environmentalists during an annual count of the island's flamingos.

The bird’s distinctive colour is thought to be the result of a genetic condition that causes it to generate more pigment melanin than usual, turning it dark rather than its usual pink colour.
Only one other black flamingo has ever been spotted in the wild before and that was in Israel in 2014.
Experts now say that this flamingo could be that bird, leading them to believe that this is the only black flamingo in the world.
Pantelis Charilaou, head of the environmental department of the British Sovereign Bases, said: “A melanistic individual is a very, very rare sighting ... basically its the opposite of an albino when the individual produces more melanin than normal.”
“From what have seen on the Internet, there was only one other sighting in Israel, so maybe this is the second one.”


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Akrotiri Zakaki Marsh – any future as bird habitat????

During the restoration of the Limassol port area in 2013, there was the promise of the restoration of atached Zakaki Marsh as Bird habitat. What is this become? Who is actually responsible for the area?

Pied Avocet Akrotiri 2016

Music: Stevie Ray Vaghaun - Little Wing (Cover) - (Original artist: Jimi Hendrix)

Akrotiri Salt Lake 30/5/14

All Footage belongs to me. (Best viewed in 720, could not be bothered to wait all that time rendering in 1080. Sorry for the shakiness at the end, my tripod is pretty useless when it's windy ... and not sure why the first clip is low resolution, the actual file is knife sharp!!)

I do not own rights to the music included and do not intend for it to be illegally distributed:
Soundtrack -
Enya - Boadicea

30/5/14
Location:
Akrotiri Salt Lake,

Species Featured in Video:

Little Tern,
Whiskered Tern,
Lesser Flamingo,
Black Wing Stilt,

Species SEEN at locations:

Akrotiri Salt Lake -

Yellow Legged Gull, Slender Billed Gull, Little Tern, Whiskered Tern, Lesser Flamingo, Little Stint, Ruff, Kentish Plover, Black Wing Stilt, Spurwing Lapwing, Barn Swallow, House Martin, Little Egret (migrating), Great Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Black Francolin, Common Kestrel, Mallard, Schreiber's Fringe-fingered Lizard, Snake-Eyed Lizard, Brine Shrimp, Brine Flies.

Zakaki Marsh -

Hooded Crow, Common kestrel, European Roller, Little Egret, Squacco Heron, Black Wing Stilt, Ruff, Crested Lark, Great Reed Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Mallard with Ducklings, Coot, Moorhen, Little Bittern, Spurwing Lapwing, Barn Swallow, House Martin, Common Swift.

Phassouri Reed Beds -

Hooded Crow, Common Kestrel, Western Marsh Harrier, Collared Dove, Wood Pigeon, Mallard with Ducklings, Coot, Moorhen, Barn Swallow, Common Swift, Cetti's Warbler, Great Reed Warbler, Sardinian Warbler, Fan-Tailed Warbler, Squacco Heron, Little Egret, Cattle Egret, Ruff, Hoopoe,
Lesser Emperor Dragonfly, Azure Damselfly, Cyprus Water Frog, Cows, Ass.

Kensington Cliffs -

Rock Dove, Western Jackdaw, Hooded Crow, Common Kestrel, Eleonora's Falcon, House Martin, Sardinian Warbler, Cyprus Warbler, Green Turtle, Baracuuda, Crevalle Jack, Trumpet Fish, Needle Fish, Black Bream.

Kouklia Soakaways -

Hooded Crow, Magpie, Common Snipe, Black-Crowned Night Heron.

Agia Varvara -

Mediterranean Chameleon, Sling-Tailed Agama, Banded Demoiselle, Blunt-Nosed Viper, Red-Rumped Swallow, Turtle Dove, Collared Dove, Wood Pigeon,
Hooded Crow, Magpie.


Equipment used:

Canon EOS 7D
Canon 400mm EF-USM 5.6 Lens
Canon SX50HS
Vanguard Tripod (a bit flimsy!!)
Custom Hide - Old Bed sheet and 2 Sticks :P
Lots of Insect repellent!!!


Out of the ordinary events for the day:

Had to rescue a Barn Swallow that got trapped in a reed, had cut into its leg and pulled its leg half out trying to get free. Involved a wooden pallet, a long hook rod borrowed from a nearby farm and Wellies!! Still got covered in bog water as the point was in a very deep channel (worse than quicksand!! so had to be quick!) Assessed damages, had to amputate the leg as it was completely disconnected and would get tangled up in her wing again, clotted the blood, gave her shade and water and then released. The other barn swallows in the area fed her in flight.

Stopped someone from running over a chameleon and helped it across the road and into a tree.

Almost got totalled by a tourist driver who didn't look before turning into a road whilst I was doing about 80-90km and had to swerve to dodge him, then dodge parked cars and then dodge an oncoming van ... driving in cyprus!!! grrr.

Flamingos actually started to walk towards me!!!!

Lost my tobacco :(

Missed a star bird (Rosey Starling) seen at Phassouri, despite me visiting the area twice!

Saw a GREEN TURTLE and Baraccuda whilst hanging off a Cliff!!

Didn't see any Alpine Swift or Griffon Vulture at Kensington Cliffs!

Didn't see any Eagles or Buzzards!!!

Limassol Lady's Mile Ducks

Ducks near the Salt Lake at Akrotiri in Limassol create an ecological paradise.

125.00 MHz: RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus (LCRA) ATIS

Mystery Wreck discovered Jan 2016

Drone discovers ‘unknown wreck’ off the coast of Cyprus
AN unknown shipwreck has been discovered by accident on the west coast of Cyprus by a man flying a remote-controlled drone with an onboard video-camera.
The wreck is laying off the coast of Limassol.
The wreck is apparently not charted – but photos posted online show the vessel is clearly visible and sitting upright.
The discovery has caused a buzz in the local diving community.

Neglected donkeys on Akrotiri marsh day 3

Tied to a fence with no shade or water, not sure if the ones loose on the marsh have access to water either as they all seem pretty desperate to try and get some. Most of them have sores and cuts on them, the grey one that tried to get water had a cut with fresh blood on its neck. The loose ones also have rope around their necks, instead of head collars I presume, maybe it was digging in and causing the blood? It wouldn't let e try and move the rope. What's the point of keeping animals if you don't want to look after them properly? Breaks my heart ???? this was the 3rd day we had taken them water down, now I'm back in the UK and can't stop thinking about the poor things. Reported to the donkey sanctuary Cyprus and they said they have been there several times to give aid and advice but they are not allowed on the area anymore ????

Akrotiri Salt lake Virtual Fieldtrip

The Copyrights of the Video and the pictures of the video, belong to Andrea Kynigou, the creator of the website

For more information and pictures about the area an for more Virtual Fieldtrips of Cyprus please visit our website

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