Becoming rarer, but they are still in Cyprus
We have a date palm in our garden- beautiful tree about 35 feet high and full of dates from about late July to October and there is still withered but obviously edible fruit on it into February- March. I regularly see them crawling (that's right crawling) along the fronds on the tree because the dates are such easy pickings, but they are easily spooked. Although they drop quite copious amount of poo all over my drive and cars I would never dream of harming them or cutting off their food supply
Odd thing is that they eat from this tree even when there is no fruit on it- even through winter they gather fruit from other shorter trees and return to eat it at their "favourite" tree where the obviously now feel very much at home
So a tall date palm in a quiet area is your best bet, even if there are no dates on it. Anything lower and they will be gone they before you get anywhere near them. I often find half eaten loquats and carobs under this tree, although with bigger fruits like pomegranates they tend to eat them on the producing tree itself. My pomegranates get decimated by them every year, but I have never gotten close enough to catch them at