Conservationists fitted the Cyprus-born chick, whose parents came from Spain, with a GPS tracker before safely returning it to its nest in the Limnatis Valley.
Regulators have been asked to assess whether the undersea cable makes financial sense and determine how its cost would be divided between the two countries.
A suitcase bust at the Deryneia crossing has strengthened suspicions that a network is using travelers to carry untaxed tobacco from the occupied areas to Israel.
