Rare black flamingo reappears in Cyprus

NICOSIA, July 21 (Xinhua) -- A very rare black female flamingo has returned to a marshland area in the south of Cyprus for the fifth time in seven years, an environmental specialist said on Thursday.

Thomas Hadjikyriakou, the manager of the Akrotiri Environmental Education Centre, who has been tracking the visits of the bird, said it reappeared this year at the Akrotiri Salt Lake on its 10th birthday.