The enriched bionetwork along with its biodiversity makes Greece a unique place to stay in. 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.

Rhodes Island with its multiple ecosystems offers an exclusively astounding stay at this place. 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:

Rhodes Island offers a variety of amazing bird kinds during your arrival for holidays. 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. Apolakkia Dam is therefore a best place for bird watching activities.

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:

You can watch a variety of appealing birds’ species on Rhodes Island as mentioned above. Some of the widespread species of birds in Rhodes include Collared Dove, Blue Tit, Crested Lark, Sardinian Warbler and House Sparrow.

The bird watchers also testify some of the rare bird species 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.