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 Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus were off Aqaba on 15 April and the first Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus for Jordan, an adult, was at Azraq on 20 January. An adult Greater Spotted Eagle Aquila clanga was seen 15km west of Azraq on 16 January. Over 700 White-winged Terns Chlidonias leucopterus were seen in the Aqaba area on 19 April including a group of c650 on the sea front. On 14 April three Hume’s Tawny Owls Strix butleri were heard calling at Siq George, Petra and four Egyptian Nightjars Caprimulgus aegyptius were singing at Azraq on 12 April. Around 15 White-cheeked Bulbuls Pycnonotus leucogenys were seen in the Azraq area on 20 January and again 11–13 April. A Booted Warbler Hippolais caligata was in the Aqaba allotments on the 7–8 April.

The following assisted in the compilation of this review: Alexander Abuladze, A. Alsirhan, Dr Svetlana Annenkova, Vaughan Ashley, Dawn Balmer, Andrew Bailey, Jamie Buchan, Mark Chichester, Tom Coles, Judy Dawes, Jeff Delve, Hugues Dufourny, Pekka Fagel, Peter Flint, Brian Foster, Ramezanali Ghaemi, George Gregory, Nader Hamidi, Tomas Haraldsson, Peter Kaestner, Brendan Kavanagh, Abolghasem Khaleghizadeh, Howard King, Guy Kirwan, David Murdoch, Khaled al Nasaralla, Uzi Paz, Yoav Perlman, Kalle Raino, Colin Richardson, Nir Sapir, Dave Sargeant, Michael Schulz, Marius Teeuw, David Whaley, Ingo Waschkies, Frédéric Vanhove, Frédéric Veyrunes, Laurent Veyrunes, Sidonie Veyrunes, Peter Wilson and Süreyya Ysfendiyaroglu.