Birding Chios (1 Viewer)

My wife and I will be visiting Chios for five days, June 11-16, and we'd like to know if there are any particularly good hot spots for birding there.

Thanks v kindly.

We've included our "Wish List" for Greece, which we know is impractical, but here goes:

Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus
Levantine Shearwater Puffinus yelkouan
European Storm-Petrel Hydrobates pelagicus
Great Bittern Botaurus stellaris
Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus
Red-breasted Goose Branta ruficollis
Red Kite Milvus milvus
Lammergeier Gypaetus barbatus
Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus
Cinereous Vulture Aegypius monachus
Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus
Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
Levant Sparrowhawk Accipiter brevipes
Greater Spotted Eagle Aquila clanga
Imperial Eagle Aquila heliaca
Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciatus
Booted Eagle Aquila pennatus
Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus
Saker Falcon Falco cherrug
Hazel Grouse Bonasa bonasia
Rock Partridge Alectoris graeca
Demoiselle Crane Anthropoides virgo
Corn Crake Crex crex
Little Crake Porzana parva
Baillon's Crake Porzana pusilla
Spotted Crake Porzana porzana
Allen's Gallinule Porphyrio alleni
Great Bustard Otis tarda
Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis undulata
Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax
Eurasian Thick-knee Burhinus oedicnemus
Cream-colored Courser Cursorius cursor
Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni
Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius
White-tailed Lapwing Vanellus leucurus
Eurasian Golden-Plover Pluvialis apricaria
Caspian Plover Charadrius asiaticus
Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola
Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus
Great Snipe Gallinago media
Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris
Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
Pallas' Sandgrouse Syrrhaptes paradoxus
Stock Pigeon Columba oenas
Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius
Middle Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos medius
Black Woodpecker Dryocopus martius
Gray-faced Woodpecker Picus canus
Greater Hoopoe-Lark Alaemon alaudipes
White-winged Lark Melanocorypha leucoptera
Black Lark Melanocorypha yeltoniensis
Citrine Wagtail Motacilla citreola
Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
Firecrest Regulus ignicapillus
White-throated Dipper Cinclus cinclus
Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush Monticola saxatilis
Scaly Thrush Zoothera dauma
Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus
Dark-throated Thrush Turdus ruficollis
Grasshopper Warbler Locustella naevia
Eurasian River Warbler Locustella fluviatilis
Savi's Warbler Locustella luscinioides
Moustached Warbler Acrocephalus melanopogon
Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola
Paddyfield Warbler Acrocephalus agricola
Marsh Warbler Acrocephalus palustris
Eastern Olivaceous Warbler Hippolais pallida
Olive-tree Warbler Hippolais olivetorum
Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina
Western Bonelli's Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli
Eastern Bonelli's Warbler Phylloscopus orientalis
Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix
Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus
Lesser Whitethroat Sylvia curruca
Barred Warbler Sylvia nisoria
Western Orphean Warbler Sylvia hortensis
Eastern Orphean Warbler Sylvia crassirostris
Rueppell's Warbler Sylvia rueppelli
Subalpine Warbler Sylvia cantillans
Spectacled Warbler Sylvia conspicillata
Dartford Warbler Sylvia undata
Marmora's Warbler Sylvia sarda
Collared Flycatcher Ficedula albicollis
Semicollared Flycatcher Ficedula semitorquata
Red-breasted Flycatcher Ficedula parva
Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos
Bluethroat Luscinia svecica
White-throated Robin Irania gutturalis
Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka
Sombre Tit Poecile lugubris
Crested Tit Lophophanes cristatus
Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria
Short-toed Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla
Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus
Rufous-tailed Shrike Lanius isabellinus
Masked Shrike Lanius nubicus
Eurasian Nutcracker Nucifraga caryocatactes
Red-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
Rosy Starling Pastor roseus
Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor
Dead Sea Sparrow Passer moabiticus
Rock Petronia Petronia petronia
White-winged Snowfinch Montifringilla nivalis
Fire-fronted Serin Serinus pusillus
Trumpeter Finch Rhodopechys githaginea
Pine Bunting Emberiza leucocephalos
Cirl Bunting Emberiza cirlus
Cinereous Bunting Emberiza cineracea
Ortolan Bunting Emberiza hortulana
Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla
Yellow-breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola

Hi jerrykruth

Welcome to BF. As soomeone who spends alot of my birding year in the Aegean Sea many of your wish list species would be on mine too! It contains many vagrant species to Greece (some never recorded in the Aegean).

Your visit in June is long after the main migration period has ended. You might get the odd stray raptor going through late (or early going back south) but here is my revised list of what I would say you have a good chace of seeing in mid-June -

Levantine Shearwater Puffinus yelkouan
Eurasian Thick-knee Burhinus oedicnemus
Middle Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos medius
Eastern Olivaceous Warbler Hippolais pallida
Olive-tree Warbler Hippolais olivetorum
Eastern Orphean Warbler Sylvia crassirostris
Rueppell's Warbler Sylvia rueppelli
Subalpine Warbler Sylvia cantillans
Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos
Sombre Tit Poecile lugubris
Short-toed Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla
Masked Shrike Lanius nubicus
Rock Petronia Petronia petronia
Cirl Bunting Emberiza cirlus
Cinereous Bunting Emberiza cineracea (only a couple of pairs breed so can be difficult)

Steve,

Just picked up your note and want to thank you for the suggestions. They will go a long way in helping, and we'll let you know how we make out.
Best regards,
Jerry Kruth