Records and photographs for Around the Region should be sent as soon as possible after the event to Around the Region, OSME, c/o The Lodge, Sandy, Bedfordshire SG19 2DL, U.K.  You can also email records to atr@osme.org

Two Ferruginous Ducks Aythya
nyroca were at Aqaba sewage
works on 15 February 2003. A Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni at Muqawir on 28 March 2003 represents a new site for the species. Seventy-five Spotted Sandgrouse Pterocles senegallus at Wadi Araba on 13 February 2003 were significant. A Little Green Bee-eater Merops orientalis at Alkaramah Dam on 12 April was unusually far north; another was at Sweimeh/Dead Sea on 26 April and 29 May 2003. A flock of 12 Thick-billed Larks Ramphocoris clotbey
was in Wadi Araba on 13 February 2003. Also there, a Black Bush Robin Cercotrichas podobe on 30 May was the second country record. Four Indian Silverbills Euodice
malabarica were at Wadi Al-
Bahhath on 14 November 2003, a further range expansion. A flock of c. 40 Syrian Serins Serinus syriacus at Muqawir on 28 March 2003 was the largest concentration away from
the south-west highlands.

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.