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The following records are from September 2003 unless otherwise stated. Two adult and an immature White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus were at Kyzylkol on 18th, with one adult there next day. Up to 24 Dalmatian Pelicans P. crispus were at Kyzylkol on 17-19th, with two Marbled Teals Marmaronetta angustirostris there on 15th, and an impressive count of at least 2200 White-headed Ducks Oxyura leucocephala. At least 33 Crested Honey Buzzards Pernis ptilorhynchus were seen at Chokpak, with two at Kosmos Station. At Chokpak a Shikra Accipiter badius was seen on 13th and a Greater Spotted Eagle Aquila clanga was between Chokpak and Almaty on 23rd. Two Imperial Eagles Aquila heliaca were seen: a third-year at Kyzylkol on 17-18th and an adult on 23rd between Chokpak and Almaty. A group of seven Himalayan Snowcock Tetraogallus himalayensis were at Kosmos Station on 25th. A second-year Common Gull Larus canus at Darbaza on 15th was west of its expected migration route. Several Eastern Stock Doves Columba eversmanni were seen including one at Chokpak on 14th, two juveniles on 21st, an adult on 22nd-23rd and just outside Taraz on 23rd.

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.