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Seventeen White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus were at Khanchali Lake (Javakheti plateau) on 3 June 2004 and 12 Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus were there on the same date. At Saghamo Lake, eight Velvet Scoter Melanitta fusca were seen on 3 June 2004, with a single at Khanchali Lake on the same date. A dark-phase adult Arctic Skua Stercorarius parasiticus at Khanchali Lake on 3 June was notable. Seven Citrine Wagtails Motacilla citreola were at Saghamo Lake on 3 June 2004, where breeding was suspected. A male Güldenstadt's Redstart Phoenicurus erythrogastrus was observed on steep slopes southeast of Kazbegi on 27 and 30 May 2004. At least three pairs of Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka were in the David Gareja steppe area on 27 May and 1-2 June 2004. There were several sightings of Great Rosefinch Carpodacus rubicilla at the end of May, at Kazbegi, between Gergeti village and Mount Kazbek, and on a summit near Panshati village.

The following assisted in the compilation of this review: Ahmed Abdallah, Mahmoud Abdallah, Alexander Abuladze, Marc Almecija, Mohammed Alshamlih, Vasil Ananian, lan Andrews, Simon Aspinall, Adib al-Assad, Imad Atrash, Sherif & Mindy Baha El Din, Thierry Bara, Ruud van Beusekom, BirdLife Cyprus Newsletter, Chris Bradshaw, Jamie Buchan, Eray Caglayan, David Callahan, Tom Coles, Judy Dawes, Adrian Drummond-Hill, Hugues Dufourny, E. & S. Durand, Peter Flint, Jeff Gordon, George Gregory, Andrew Grieve, Nader Hamidi, Chris Hewson, David Higgs, Erik Hirschfield, Remco Hofland, Süreyya Isfendiyaroglu, Justin Jansen, Mike Jennings, Abolghasem Khaleghizadeh, Fares Khoury, Guy M. Kirwan, Andrew Lassey, Susannah Lerman, James McCallum, Istvan Moldovan, David Murdoch, Seyed Babak Musavi, North Cyprus Birds website, Bill O'Brien, Rob Palmer, Yoav Perlman, Richard Porter, Alireza Rabiei, Colin Richardson, Magnus Robb, Tobias Roth, Omar Al-Saghier, Dave Sargeant, Derek A. Scott, Dave Sedgeley, Gianluca Serra, Roy Slaterus, James P. Smith, Jens Sogaard Hansen, Lars Svensson, Rene Vos, Colin Wells, David Whaley and Ignacio Yufera.