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.   

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.

Three claims of 1st records were a Fan-tailed Raven Corvus rhipidurus at Belen Pass on 22 March (northernmost record ever), a Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos at Kulu Gölü on 9–10 May and a female Namaqua Dove Oena capensis at gravel pits north of Birecik on 23–24 May (also perhaps northernmost record ever). A Bar-tailed Desert Lark Ammomanes cincturus was at the Göksu Delta on 21 May (3rd record). A male Tree Sparrow Passer montanus was at Birecik on 22 May (the species has only recently been discovered to occur in south-east Anatolia in the breeding season), and two Paddyfield Warblers Acrocephalus agricola were singing downstream, near the Syrian border on 23 May. A pair of Siskins Carduelis spinus at Akseki on 26–27 May (not previously definitely recorded in the summer in the Taurus), and also a Grey-faced Woodpecker Picus canus was there on 27 May. A female Black Francolin Francolinus francolinus was just east of Manavgat on 27 May. The species is rare in west of its range in Turkey. The 4th record of Grey Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius involved one photographed at Sodali Gölü on 25 May. As in 2004, Plain Leaf Warblers Phylloscopus neglectus were found singing in late May from a sparsely vegetated sloping hillside south of Van on the Çatak road c1 km south of the junction with the road to Bahçesaray. A Dotterel Charadrius morinellus was at the Kizilirmak Delta on 9 April and seven were at Kulu Gölü on 18 May. The 4th modern record of Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis was at Kulu Gölü on 12 February. A Corncrake Crex crex at Posof, Kars on 21 June is possibly indicative of breeding. A count of 204 Knot Calidris canutus at the Kizilirmak Delta is the highest-ever for the Black Sea coastlands. A count of 22 Common Mynas Acridotheres tristis at Kartal, Istanbul on 16 April is the largest ever. Following the recent decline in the species, a total of 14 Griffon Vultures Gyps fulvus at Uzundere, Erzurum, is significant. A Red-breasted Goose Branta ruficollis on 29 January was at Balikdami, Eskisehir. 150 Broad-billed Sandpipers Limicola falcinellus were at Adana, Yumurtalik on 9 May. A Goosander Mergus merganser was at Egirdir Lake on 20 January and three were at Kizilirmak Delta on 15 January. A Slavonian Grebe Podiceps auritus was at Meriç Delta, Edirne on 16 January (17th record).