Lebanon Ramsar wetland
Tyre Coast Nature Reserve
68 bird species recorded; the most in March and in September.
RomanDeckert · CC BY-SA 4.0
This month here
29 species in January.11 species in February.48 species in March.44 species in April.0 species in May.28 species in June.0 species in July.11 species in August.45 species in September.8 species in October.13 species in November.13 species in December.
The birds you are most likely to see in the month you choose, those that come for the season first. It opens on today's month.
No records for this month.
No records for this month.
- Resident all year
- Summer visitor comes to breed
- Winter visitor comes for the winter
- Passage migrant in spring and autumn
In numbers
68 species, counted.
Our own rating, from the records only: species (50 points), threatened species (20), migrants (20) and protected status — Ramsar, IBA, SPA, observatory (10).
- 68Speciesrecorded more than once
- 31Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
- 1ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
- 564Recordsopen records within 6 km
- 4Raptors
- 4Waders
- 5Gulls & seabirds
- 7Herons, ibises & grebes
- 38Songbirds
- 10Other birds
From open records (eBird and others, through GBIF, licensed for any use). More birdwatchers mean more records: a quiet place may have more birds than it shows.
The checklist
All 68 species.
By group, with the year in twelve cells: the darker the cell, the more often the bird is recorded that month.
Raptors4 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Common BuzzardButeo buteo
- Black-winged KiteElanus caeruleus
- Eurasian SparrowhawkAccipiter nisus
Waders4 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Spur-winged LapwingVanellus spinosus
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
- Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus
- Common Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula
Gulls & seabirds5 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Yellow-legged GullLarus michahellis
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
- Common TernSterna hirundo
Herons, ibises & grebes7 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Western Cattle EgretBubulcus ibis
- Microcarbo pygmaeusMicrocarbo pygmaeus
- Squacco HeronArdeola ralloides
- Great White EgretArdea alba
Songbirds38 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Graceful WarblerPrinia gracilis
- Hooded CrowCorvus cornix
- Common MynaAcridotheres tristis
- Yellow-vented BulbulPycnonotus xanthopygos
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- European GreenfinchChloris chloris
- Barn swallowHirundo rustica
- Palestine SunbirdCinnyris osea
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- White WagtailMotacilla alba
- Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- Crested larkGalerida cristata
- Eurasian Reed WarblerAcrocephalus scirpaceus
- Eurasian BlackbirdTurdus merula
- European StonechatSaxicola rubicola
- Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis
- Lesser whitethroatSylvia curruca
- Northern WheatearOenanthe oenanthe
- Isabelline wheatearOenanthe isabellina
- Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava
- Sardinian WarblerCurruca melanocephala
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
- Eastern Olivaceous WarblerIduna pallida
- Red-backed ShrikeLanius collurio
- European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- Masked ShrikeLanius nubicus
- Tawny PipitAnthus campestris
- WhinchatSaxicola rubetra
- Woodchat ShrikeLanius senatorNT
- European SerinSerinus serinus
- Common House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Greater Short-toed LarkCalandrella brachydactyla
- Great Reed WarblerAcrocephalus arundinaceus
- BluethroatLuscinia svecica
- Common RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurus
- Rüppell's WarblerSylvia ruppeli
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
Other birds10 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- European SwiftApus apus
- Common KingfisherAlcedo atthis
- Eurasian HoopoeUpupa epops
- Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Common QuailCoturnix coturnix
- European Turtle DoveStreptopelia turturVU
- Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- White-breasted KingfisherHalcyon smyrnensis
Monthly presence relative to all bird records that month, so a busy month does not inflate every species.
When to go
The most species in March and in September.
Species recorded in each month, with the usual temperature and rain.
- Jan17°/15°134 mm
- Feb17°/15°106 mm
- Mar18°/16°64 mm
- Apr19°/17°32 mm
- May22°/20°14 mm
- Jun24°/23°6 mm
- Jul27°/25°4 mm
- Aug28°/26°3 mm
- Sep27°/26°7 mm
- Oct25°/24°32 mm
- Nov22°/20°72 mm
- Dec19°/17°118 mm
- Bar: species recorded that month.
- Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Tyre Coast Nature Reserve.
Nature reserve in Lebanon
Tyre Coast Nature Reserve is a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in Lebanon.
68 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 564 open records.
The most recorded are the Graceful Warbler, the Hooded Crow and the Common Myna.
11 species come for the summer, 16 for the winter and 4 only pass through.
1 are threatened worldwide, including European Turtle Dove.
The most species are recorded in March and in September.
Get there and watch
- فندق فكتري فلجplace to stay · 0.9 km · 14 within 10 km
- Tyrenearest town · 3.1 km in a straight line
- Uri Michaeli Haifa International Airport (HFA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 51 km in a straight lineCar hire at BEY airport (Beirut)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The place and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the bird hides, towers and trails that OpenStreetMap shows.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 41car parks within 3 km
- 101restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 14places to stay within 10 kmفندق فكتري فلج, Rest House Tyre, Bawab Guest House and 11 more
- bird hides within 6 km
- observation towers within 6 km
- marked trails within 4 km
- visitor centres within 6 km
- viewpoints within 5 km
- campsites within 10 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
Around Tyre Coast Nature Reserve.
The lakes, beaches, islands, rivers and mountains around this place, and its night sky, in the family's atlases.
Peakyas124 mountains within 25 kmHar Shomera590 m · 19 kmAard el Borj · 19 kmRamat Adamit · 20 kmHar Ukhman451 m · 20 kmHar Magur713 m · 20 kmHar Poreach173 m · 21 kmHar Rahav752 m · 22 kmChalaaboun · 24 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 kmKeshet Cave · 20 km
Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The place, as people saw it.
Other places nearby.
Tyre Coast Nature Reserve
Lebanon
- 45Birdyas Score
- 68Species
- 31Migrants
- 1Threatened
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q22948894) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Birds | 564 open bird records within 6 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only; mostly eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Species | GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikidata (CC0); Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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