You can enjoy the abounding biodiversity along with flora and fauna of Greece. 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. Being one of the migratory routes for various kinds of birds, tourists can see a variety of alluring birds in Rhodes during summer and spring seasons.
Bird Watching in Rhodes Island:
You can enjoy sightseeing a wide range of birds during your holidays in Rhodes Island. All this makes bird watching on Rhodes Island interesting because you can see lots of the most impressive and rare birds worldwide. Therefore, a trip to the Rhodes Island should include bird watching.
Sites for Bird watching in Rhodes:
Interesting species of Birds can be seen all over the Bird Watching activity in Rhodes Island. 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.
There are certain other mountainous regions in Rhodes such as Attavyros and Profitis Ilias but they lack birds’ variety. 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:
As per the information above, you can get pleasures of watching a variety of birds’ species on Rhodes Island. Some of the widespread species of birds in Rhodes include Collared Dove, Blue Tit, Crested Lark, Sardinian Warbler and House Sparrow.
According to the birders, this place also carries some rare species of the birds. These rare species of birds include Baillon’s Crakes, Short-toed Larks, White-tailed Lapwing, Trumpeter Finch, Black-headed Bunting and many more.
The impressive breeding birds that are found here include Golden Oriole, Cretzschmar’s Bunting, Golden Eagle, Calandra lark, White-winged Black Tern, Long-Legged Buzzard, Lanner Falcon, Audouin’s Gull and many of the Mediterranean birds. If you are lucky on your next Rhodes Holidays, you will be able to see the Bonelli’s Eagles here on Rhodes.
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.
You can take pleasures of amazing birds such as Glossy Ibis, Squacco Heron, Great Snipe, Great Reed Warblers, Yellow Wagtails, Baillon’s Crakes and White-tailed Lapwing at the river near Kremasti town.
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.
Rhodes Island offers some of the natural bird watching sites with a unique experience of taking pleasures of the rare and endangered species of birds in Rhodes.