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Cypriot Delights: Part I

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This is a recent split, for when I last visited Cyprus in 2018 the two were considered conspecific. Though it has spread naturally, Anders Gray from BirdLife Cyprus told me that it’s numbers had been boosted by releases of captive-bred birds by hunters. One September I watched a pack of seven Eleonora’s hunting a juvenile Swift.

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