* = earliest ever recorded return date for Lesvos
| Species | First date |
|---|---|
| Common Quail | 2 Apr |
| Garganey | 13 Mar |
| Ferruginous Duck | 6 Apr |
| White Stork | 16 Mar |
| Glossy Ibis | 21 Mar |
| Spoonbill | 27 Mar |
| Little Bittern | 14 Apr |
| Squacco Heron | 15 Apr |
| Night-heron | 13 Mar |
| Purple Heron | 29 Mar |
| Dalmatian Pelican | |
| Short-toed Eagle | 20 Mar |
| Pallid Harrier | 26 Mar* |
| Montagu’s Harrier | 16 Apr |
| Levant Sparrowhawk | |
| Lesser Kestrel | 26 Mar* |
| Red-footed Falcon | 17 Apr |
| Hobby | 19 Apr |
| Eleonora’s Falcon | 18 Apr |
| Little Crake | 28 Feb * |
| Stone-curlew | 1 Apr |
| Spur-winged Plover | 19 Mar* |
| Little Ringed Plover | 17 Mar |
| Ruff | 19 Feb * |
| Spotted Redshank | 13 Mar |
| Marsh Sandpiper | 18 Mar |
| Wood Sandpiper | 13 Mar |
| Common Sandpiper | 18 Mar |
| Caspian Tern | 27 Mar* |
| Slender-billed Gull | 18 Mar |
| Gull-billed Tern | 29 Mar* |
| Little Tern | 14 Apr |
| Whiskered Tern | 19 Apr |
| White-winged Tern | 22 Apr |
| Black Tern | 23 Apr |
| Turtle Dove | 31 Mar |
| Common Cuckoo | 1 Apr |
| Great Spotted Cuckoo | 4 Mar* |
| Alpine Swift | 25 Mar |
| Common Swift | 25 Mar |
| Pallid Swift | 27 Mar |
| Roller | |
| European Bee-eater | 11 Apr* |
| Hoopoe | 4 Mar* |
| Red-backed Shrike | 18 Apr |
| Woodchat Shrike | 25 Mar |
| Masked Shrike | 4 Apr |
| Lesser Grey Shrike | 21 Apr |
| Golden Oriole | 18 Apr |
| Greater Short-toed Lark | 15 Mar* |
| Red-rumped Swallow | 15 Mar |
| Barn Swallow | 29 Feb |
| Sand Martin | 15 Mar |
| House Martin | 18 Feb |
| Savi’s Warbler | 28 Mar* |
| Eastern Orphean Warbler | 18 Mar* |
| Subalpine Warbler | 18 Mar |
| Ruppell’s Warbler | 20 Mar* |
| Common Whitethroat | 27 Mar* |
| Lesser Whitethroat | 5 Mar* |
| Garden Warbler | 28 Mar* |
| Olivaceous Warbler | 9 Apr |
| Olive-tree Warbler | |
| Great Reed Warbler | 28 Mar |
| Eurasian Reed Warbler | 28 Feb * |
| Sedge Warbler | 28 Feb * |
| Willow Warbler | 28 Mar |
| Wood Warbler | 10 Apr |
| Whinchat | 19 Mar* |
| Yellow Wagtail | 1 Mar * |
| Citrine Wagtail | 17 Apr |
| Tawny Pipit | 13 Mar* |
| Red-throated Pipit | |
| Tree Pipit | 25 Mar* |
| Black-eared Wheatear | 13 Mar* |
| Isabelline Wheatear | 13 Mar* |
| Northern Wheatear | 4 Mar |
| Common Redstart | 13 Mar* |
| Spotted Flycatcher | 31 Mar* |
| Common Nightingale | 29 Mar |
| Thrush Nightingale | 29 Mar* |
| Collared Flycatcher | 29 Mar* |
| Pied Flycatcher | 17 Apr |
| Spanish Sparrow | 25 Mar* |
| Cretzschmar’s Bunting | 20 Mar* |
| Ortolan Bunting | 16 Apr |
| Cinereous Bunting | 2 Apr |
| Black-headed Bunting |
