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The following assisted in the compilation of this review: Alexander Abuladze, Mohammad Al-Shamlih, Marc Almécija, Vasil Ananian, Ian Andrews, Sherif & Mindy Baha El Din, Thierry Bara, Jamie Buchan, Tom Coles, Judy Dawes, Barbaros Demirci, Hugues Dufourny, Marc Duquet, Peter Flint, Benoît Gauquie, George Gregory, Andrew Grieve, Richard Hoath, Abolghasem Khaleghizadeh, Fares Khoury, Graham Lobley, Mark Moore, Hilary Nash, Yoav Perlman, Ian Philip, Ghassan & Mona Ramadan-Jaradi, Colin Richardson (on behalf of the Emirates Bird Records Committee), James P. Smith, Guilhem Tightens, Andreas & Maria Wenger, David Whaley and Sadegh Sadeghi Zadegan. Records were also taken from the BirdLife Cyprus Newsletter and North Cyprus Birds website.

Three Ruddy Shelducks Tadorna ferruginea and a Greater Spotted Eagle Aquila clanga were at Dashour Lake, near Cairo, on 6 December 2003. A Verreaux’s Eagle Aquila verreauxii was observed in Wadi Gamel on 28 October 2003, representing one of the most northerly records in Egypt. In the same area were a pair of Bonelli’s Eagles Hieraaetus fasciatus and two Lappet-faced Vultures Torgos tracheliotos. Caspian Plovers Charadrius asiaticus were near Shalateen and at Wadi Adieb on 15 December 2003. A Namaqua Dove Oena capensis was in the garden of the Shams Allam Hotel on 26 October 2003. On the same date an Eastern Stonechat Saxicola maurus was at the Bedouin Village Lodge, a Red-breasted Flycatcher Ficedula parva was at Wadi El Gemal Marsh (with another there on 28 October), and an Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus was at the checkpoint south of Marsa Allam. Another Isabelline Shrike was at Qalun village on 11 December 2003 and three were wintering at Gebel Elba. A House Crow Corvus splendens at Qalun village on 11 December had reportedly been in the area for a year. Approximately ten Red Avadavats Amandava amandava were at Lake Qarun, just east of Shakshuk village in early November 2003.