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An impressive fall of migrants occurred on the morning of 8 May. In three hours one observer recorded the following in a normally quiet area near Doha: at least 45 European Bee-eaters Merops apiaster, three Rufous Bush-chats Cercotrichas galactotes, a Grasshopper Warbler Locustella naevia, two Sedge Warblers Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, four Olivaceous Warblers Hippolais pallida, an Upcher’s Warbler H. languida, three Barred Warblers Sylvia nisoria, five Lesser Whitethroats S. curruca, at least twelve Common Whitethroats S. communis, at least 50 Willow Warblers Phylloscpous trochilus, 20 Chiffchaffs P. collybita, at least ten Spotted Flycatchers Muscicapa striata, more than ten Isabelline Shrikes Lanius isabellinus and 15 Red-backed Shrikes L. collurio, two Lesser Grey Shrikes L. minor a Woodchat Shrike L. senator and a Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros. Everything passed through quite quickly and three days later it was very quiet again.

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.