Unusual birds

Deniz1 · Post by **Deniz1** » Sun 20 Sep 2015 3:01 pm

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?

Brend · Post by **Brend** » Sun 20 Sep 2015 3:29 pm

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

Becker · Post by **Becker** » Sun 20 Sep 2015 4:31 pm

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.

Deniz1 · Post by **Deniz1** » Sun 20 Sep 2015 6:24 pm

Yes they are the ones.

frontalman · Post by **frontalman** » Sun 20 Sep 2015 8:09 pm

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.

Hippocampus · Post by **Hippocampus** » Mon 21 Sep 2015 9:45 am

Fortunately they seem to avoid the hunting season.

frontalman · Post by **frontalman** » Mon 21 Sep 2015 3:57 pm

So they're intelligent as well as beautiful!

Deniz1 · Post by **Deniz1** » Tue 22 Sep 2015 3:54 am

Like me!

Groucho · Post by **Groucho** » Tue 22 Sep 2015 5:28 am

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.

: Blue-cheeked Bee Easter

Hedge-fund · Post by **Hedge-fund** » Tue 22 Sep 2015 5:07 pm

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.

Groucho · Post by **Groucho** » Wed 23 Sep 2015 5:34 am

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....

Hedge-fund · Post by **Hedge-fund** » Wed 23 Sep 2015 8:58 am

Ah that makes more sense than the parrot theory!

But then again - dyed doves makes no sense whatsoever!

Groucho · Post by **Groucho** » Wed 23 Sep 2015 12:00 pm

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.

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