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On 22 September 2003 a flock of 50 Kestrels Falco tinnunculus were at Aziz-Abad, Golestan province. Four Siberian White Cranes Grus leucogeranus arrived on their wintering grounds in Fereydoon Kenar, Mazandaran, in early November; a male on 1 November was followed by three (one juvenile) on 13 November 2003. A juvenile was last recorded three years ago. A Woodpigeon Columba palumbus was at Bidak, adjacent to Golestan National Park, on 23 September 2003, and on the same date a Raven Corvus corax was in the Dasht region, east of Golestan National Park.

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.