Sicily – South around Syracuse - 2014

Published by Mike Neale (mcnswiss AT gmail.com)

Participants: Mike Neale

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Osprey
Osprey

Places Visited:

National delle Reserve Semintal
Portopalo/ Vendicari
Saline di Priolo/ Riserva Naturale Cava Grande del Cassible
Capo Murro di Porco/ Pantallica
Reserve Arnoe/ Syracuse saline
Euryalus castle
Syracuse Roman amphitheatre
Syracuse Greek theatre
Megara hyblaea

http://www.sicilyincoming.com/parks---natural-reserves.html

Species Lists

1. Mallard
2. Common Pheasant
3. Egyptian Geese
4. Little Egret
5. Grey Heron
6. Greater Flamingo
7. Common Kestrel
8. Lesser Kestrel
9. Marsh Harrier
10. Common Buzzard
11. European Honey Buzzard
12. Eurasian Sparrowhawk
13. Short toed Eagle
14. Osprey
15. Merlin?
16. Peregrine?
17. Water Rail
18. Eurasian Coot
19. Little Ringed Plover
20. Kentish Plover
21. Ringed Plover
22. Grey Plover
23. Dunlin
24. Curlew Sandpiper
25. Little Stint
26. Oystercatcher
27. Wood Sandpiper
28. Green Sandpiper
29. Common Greenshank
30. Common Red Shank
31. Black-headed Gull
32. Lesser Black backed Gull
33. Slender-billed Gull
34. Yellow-legged Gull
35. Audouin's Gull
36. Little Tern
37. Sandwich Tern
38. Caspian Tern
39. Rock Dove / Feral Pigeon
40. Common Wood Pigeon
41. Eurasian Collared Dove
42. Eurasian Scops Owl
43. Common Swift
44. Alpine Swift
45. Eurasian Hoopoe
46. European Bee-eater
47. Great-spotted Woodpecker
48. Crested Lark
49. Barn Swallow
50. Red-rumped Swallow
51. Common House Martin
52. European Robin
53. Common Nightingale
54. Black Redstart
55. Northern Wheatear
56. Whinchat
57. Common Stonechat
58. Common Blackbird
59. Blue Rock Thrush
60. Blackcap Sylvia
61. Common Whitethroat
62. Sardinian Warbler
63. Zitting Cisticola
64. Cetti’s Warbler
65. Willow Warbler
66. Wood Warbler?
67. Wren
68. Great Tit
69. European Blue Tit
70. Woodchat Shrike
71. Common Magpie
72. Eurasian Jay
73. Hooded Crow
74. Common Raven
75. Spotless Starling
76. European starling
77. Italian Sparrow
78. Eurasian Tree Sparrow
79. Common Rock Sparrow
80. European Goldfinch
81. European Serin
82. Corn Bunting

Butterflies

1. Swallowtail
2. Scarce Swallow tail
3. Large White
4. Small White
5. Eastern Dappled White
6. Common Blue / Sicilian Blue
7. Brown Argus
8. Painted Lady
9. Queen of Spain Fritillary
10. Meadow Brown
11. Small Heath
12. Speckled Wood
13. Wall Brown
14. Large Skipper
15. Pygmy Skipper
16. Southern Marbled Skipper
17. Southern Comma
18. Langs short tailed blue
19. Sicilian Grayling
20. Small Copper
21. Geranium Bronze
22. Marbled white
23. Rosy Underwing Moth

Other invertebrates

1. Millipede sp
2. Egyptian Grasshopper
3. Praying Mantis
4. Copper Demoiselle
5. Banded Demoiselle
6. Red veined darter
7. Common Darter
8. Blue Skimmer
9. Southern chaser
10. Violet Dropwing
11. Blue Emperor

Mammals

1. Pipistrelle bat sp.

Amphibians & Reptiles

1. Pool Frog
2. Western Green Lizard
3. Italian Wall Lizard
4. Sicilian Wall Lizard
5. Moorish Gecko