Greece offers a plentiful of flora and fauna with a unique kind of biodiversity. 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.

The availability of a range of ecosystems makes Rhodes Island a heaven on earth. Many of the people do not know that Rhodes Island is the habitat of more than three hundred species of birds. Spring and summer seasons blesses Rhodes with a range of beautiful birds due to being a migratory route for them.

Bird Watching in Rhodes Island:

During your vacation, you will take pleasures of watching attractive birds in Rhodes Island. Bird watching on Rhodes Island – Greece is very interesting due to the fact that you can see some of the most rate and impressive birds here on the Island. Your tour to Island Rhodes must include bird watching activity.

Sites for Bird watching in Rhodes:

You can see a variety of birds’ species in Rhodes Island while enjoying Birds Watching activity. 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.

You can also visit Attavyros and Profitis Ilias, the mountainous areas but beware that you can’t find variety of birds in these places. 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:

Rhodes Island offers a large number of birds’ species as per the information provided above. Some of the widespread species of birds in Rhodes include Collared Dove, Blue Tit, Crested Lark, Sardinian Warbler and House Sparrow.

Birds Watchers also claim some rare species of the birds in this place. These rare species of birds include Baillon’s Crakes, Short-toed Larks, White-tailed Lapwing, Trumpeter Finch, Black-headed Bunting and many more.

Apart from a number of Mediterranean birds, some of the most appealing species of this region are Cretzschmar’s Bunting, Golden Oriole & Eagle, White-winged Black Tern, Long-Legged Buzzard, Calandra lark, Audouin’s Gull and Lanner Falcon. 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.

Some of the amazing birds like Great Reed Warblers, White-tailed Lapwing, Baillon’s Crakes, Squacco Heron, Glossy Ibis, Great Snipe and Yellow Wagtails can be seen at the river near Kresmati town as well as Kresmatis Bridge.

If you are an avid bird watcher then Rhodes Island has some of the best places for you to enjoy bird watching. There is no developed and artificial bird watching site but you can find some very pretty and amusing birds in their natural habitats.

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.