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

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.

Records from the Aammiq Marshes late 2004 include a maximum of six Cattle Egrets Bubulcus ibis on 1 November. Up to 100 Night Herons Nycticorax nycticorax in September was the highest number ever seen at this site. A huge flock of 800 White Pelicans Pelecanus onocrotalus was above Lake Qaaroun on 5 October. Ninety-five Common Cranes Grus grus headed south over Khirbet Qanafar in the Bekaa Valley on 27 October. A White-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis was present from July and two were recorded on 2 October. Four Wigeon Anas penelope were rare visitors to the area on 13 December as were four Pintail A. acuta on 14 October. A Pallid Harrier Circus macrouros was present from mid-October until December. A Lesser Kestrel Falco naumannii was at Khirbet Qanafar on 23 September and a Steppe Grey Shrike Lanius [meridionalis] pallidirostris on 16 September just south of Aana. Finally a Scrub Warbler Scotocerca inquieta was near Khirbet Qanafar on 30 August. The species is rare in Lebanon.