Records from Awserd, 27-28 February: Black Kite, about 50 migrating. Common Kestrel, 5 or more. Cream-coloured Courser, 4. European Bee-Eater, about 6. Bar-tailed Lark, 50 or more. Dunn´s Lark, 7, probably a family. Black-crowned Lark, 50 or more. Common Hoopoe-Lark, about 10. Barn Swallow, about 20. Red-rumped Swallow, about 4. Northern Wheatear, 2. Whinchat, 1. Common Whitethroat, 1. Western Orphean Warbler, 1. Subalpine Warbler, 1. Willow Warbler, about 6, probably this species. Great Grey Shrike, about 6 or more, once with a young bird. Fluvous Babbler, more than 10. Desert Sparrow, more than 10.

Dakhla, 29 February: Cormorant, about 10. European Spoonbill, about 8. Stilt, 2. Black-headed Gull, 2. Audouin´s Gull, about 20, ringed with BLOB and BTY5