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On 29 November three Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo flew ESE and 74 White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus flew SSE at Al Quwayra. A male Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus was north of Dana on 18 October and a juvenile was in the Wadi Rum area in November. A Lesser Spotted Eagle Aquila pomarina was seen at Aqaba on 22 October. Records from Al Quwayra include one Greater Spotted Eagle A. clanga on 24 November with two there on 25 November, 21 Steppe Eagle A. nipalensis on 22 November and a subadult Imperial Eagle A. heliaca on 29 November. A Sooty Falcon Falco concolor was at Petra on 20 October with four at Wadi Rum on 21 October. A first-winter Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus Aqaba and a Little Gull L. minutus were at Aqaba on 22 October. Two Namaqua Dove Oena capensis were at Fidan on 23 October with five (including a juvenile) at Al Quwayra on 29 November. On 3 August a European Bee-eater Merops apiaster and a Syrian Woodpecker Dendrocopus syriacus were near Jallad, Amman. A Red-breasted Flycatcher Ficedula parva was at Disi with another at Jebel Khazali on 21 October. Around 700 House Crow Corvus splendens were at Aqaba on 22 October and ten Syrian Serin Serinus syriacus were at Dana on 19 October.

The following assisted in the compilation of this review: Alexander Abuladze, Yosef Ali Alzaby, Vasil Ananian, Ian Andrews, Parviz Bakhtiari, Gerry Bilbao, Tom Coles, Judy Dawes, Rob Felix, Peter Flint, Ramezanali Ghaemi, Jan Goedelt, Ian Green, Nader Hamidi, Tomas Haraldsson, Peter Hellyer, Volker Hesse, Menno Hornman, Lior Kislev, Abolghasem Khaleghizadeh, Marcus Kohler, Graham Langley, Alexander Lees, Graham Lobley, Martin Lok, Mary Megalli, Peter Meininger, Babak Musavi, Yoav Perlman, Thomas Pettersson, Stefan Pfutzke, Colin Richardson, Nir Sapir, Dave Sargeant, Heiko Schmaljohann, Shellie Senzer, David Stanton, Marius Teeuw, Hannes Uhlig, Magnus Ullman, Harvey van Diek, Colin Walters, David Whaley, Frank Willems and Mark Zekhuis.