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Many birds flying around my pool. Never seen them before they are the size of a starling with green and orange patches on their backs and ideas?

look up bee eaters on google hope they are still there when we come over.

Sound like Bee-eaters. Beautiful,very colourful when the sun catches them. They are usually very noisy,you can quite often hear them before they can be seen.

Yes they are the ones.

They fly in flocks feeding on insects in the air. They make a chirrupy sound. We get them every year in Karsiyaka for a few weeks in Spring then again this time of year. I think they migrate and Cyprus is on their route. They are indeed very beautiful birds.

Fortunately they seem to avoid the hunting season.

So they're intelligent as well as beautiful!

Like me!

Here's a photo I took of a rare visitor a Blue-cheeked bee eater down near the monastery at the end of the Karpas in May this year.

Behind my garden there are half a dozen pigeon type birds that appear to be the offspring of a pigeon and a parrot.

Their wings have greens/reds/pinks/yellows in them.

Hedge-fund wrote:Behind my garden there are half a dozen pigeon type birds that appear to be the offspring of a pigeon and a parrot.

Their wings have greens/reds/pinks/yellows in them.

Ha ha ha - some of the locals like to dye their doves exotic colours - so that's probably the answer....

Ah that makes more sense than the parrot theory!

But then again - dyed doves makes no sense whatsoever!

Hedge-fund wrote:Ah that makes more sense than the parrot theory!

But then again - dyed doves makes no sense whatsoever!

I never said it made sense only that it is a habit of some locals... Kuskor have been made aware of this issue but it seems somewhat harmless to colour birds bred in captivity if not a little nonsensical given that a bird's natural instinct will be not to breed with another with abnormal colouring... i.e. it's counter-productive.