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Birdwatching Report from Vatera - Lesvos 29.04.02 - 13.05.02

• We visited Vatera, Lesvos for the first time with our young family and a friend and stayed at comfortable and homely apartments...The southern tip of Vatera on the island of Lesvos benefits from some unique advantages, it is ideally situated for bird migration coming in from Africa and Turkey due to its southern location on the island and it has a protruding point into the sea, the cape of Agios Focas, which naturally attracts a lot of migratory birds.....Dirk Demey & Karen Op de Beek report.

Dirk and Karen stayed in Lesvos courtesy of Madonna Studios formally The Vatera Specialists Birder friendly accommodation on the southern tip of the island (Brochure)

Lesvos Apr - 2004 161 Bird Species recorded Parking up we walked slowly up the central track and here amongst the pine trees we had excellent views of the islands star bird the delightful little Kruper's Nuthatch. The bird was excavating a hole and gave us the opportunity to scope it well!...Steve Bird reports for Birdseekers

Collins Bird Guide Lars Svensson et al: Buy from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk Without a doubt, the best of the European field guides! If you buy just 1 book a year then make sure that its this one. Stunning drawings by the worlds finest bird illustrators..good coverage of all of Greeces birds.

Birding on the Greek Island of Lesvos Richard Brooks: Buy from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk I found this book invaluable on my visit.....The systematic list is comprehensive, listing every bird recorded on Lesvos together with detailed information on status, distribution, and occurence. The book contains a useful index to the bird species, and contains some stunning photographs taken by the author to wet the appetite.

Recommended travel books for Greece
 

The Rough Guide to Greek Islands Mark Ellingham, et al: Buy from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk A thoroughly functional guide to the Greek Islands. There is a small section on the natural history of the Greek Islands included

DK Eyewitness Travel Guides: Greek Islands: Buy from Amazon.co.uk This quide is not only stunningly beautiful but full of general info as well: along with the Rough Guide, DK's is absolutely essential. No other guide has so much to show you - visually. It seems incredible that so many finely rendered photographs have been included - but they have! This book is a triumph over mediocrity: it bristles with colour and light and we can only get lost in the splendour of it all.