Hydrological Study - Sovereign Base Areas Cyprus
Hydrological Study - Sovereign Base Areas Cyprus
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Consulting CYPRUS<br />
4.3.3 Special Protection <strong>Areas</strong> (SPA) designation.<br />
Akrotiri Wetlands and Akrotiri Cliffs were designated as SPAs in 2011. Out of the 308<br />
bird species recorded at Akrotiri Peninsula (Table 3, pages 10-15 of Nature<br />
Conservation Component Plan), 100 species are listed in Schedule 1 to the Game<br />
and Wild Birds Ordinance, requiring protection through the designation of SPAs.<br />
From the Schedule 1 species, 28 have been identified as qualifying species for the<br />
SPA designation of Akrotiri Wetlands and Akrotiri Cliffs (Table 5). It is noted that<br />
further survey work is necessary to establish whether the SPA designation should<br />
cover two more Schedule 1 species, namely <strong>Cyprus</strong> Warbler (Sylvia melanothorax)<br />
and Eurasian Thick-knee (Burhinus oedicnemus). Besides individual species, the<br />
Akrotiri SPA designation includes the groups of raptors, cranes and waterbirds as<br />
qualifying features.<br />
Table 6: Qualifying species, listed in Schedule 1 of the Game and Wild Birds Ordinance, for the<br />
SPA designation of Akrotiri Wetlands and Akrotiri Cliffs.<br />
Common name Scientific name<br />
1 Demoiselle Crane Grus virgo<br />
2 Purple Heron Ardea purpurea<br />
3 Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides<br />
4 Ferruginous Duck * Aythya nyroca<br />
5 Little Stint Calidris minuta<br />
6 Kentish Plover * Charadrius alexandrinus<br />
7 Greater Sandplover Charadrius leschenaultii<br />
8 White-winged (Black) Tern Chlidonias leucopterus<br />
9 Western Marsh-harrier Circus aeruginosus<br />
10 Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus<br />
11 Saker Falcon Falco cherrug<br />
12 Eleonora’s Falcon * Falco eleonorae<br />
13 Peregrine Falcon * Falco peregrinus<br />
14 Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus<br />
15 Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola<br />
16 Common Crane Grus grus<br />
17 Black-winged Stilt * Himantopus himantopus<br />
18 Slender-billed Gull Larus genei<br />
19 European Bee-eater Merops apiaster<br />
20 Great White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus<br />
21 European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<br />
22 European Shag * Phalacrocorax aristotelis desmarestii<br />
23 Ruff Philomachus pugnax<br />
24 Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber roseus<br />
25 Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus<br />
26 Gull-billed Tern Sterna nilotica<br />
27 Shelduck Tadorna tadorna<br />
28 Spur-winged Lapwing * Vanellus spinosus<br />
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