Pourquoi visiter l’île de Lesbos pour observer les oiseaux ?

Lesbos is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It has an area of 1 632 km² with 320 kilometres of coastline, making it the third largest Greek island and the largest of the numerous Greek islands scattered in the Aegean. It is separated from Turkey by the narrow Mytilini Strait.
The island is forested and mountainous with two large peaks, Mt. Lepetymnos at 968 m and Mt. Olympus at 967 m dominating its northern and central sections.
It offers some of the best birding in the Mediterranean basin. Each spring birders from across Europe converge on this outpost of Europe. The birds are a blend of Mediterranean breeding species, migrants moving through to breed in eastern Europe and Asia Minor species such as Krüper’s Nuthatch (and probably the easiest place to see this species in the Western Palearctic).
Marc Fasol visited the island in April 2011, and he sent us some photos.