Following a successful pre-tour extension to Scotland, the group notched over 260 species in Asia Minor and Cyprus, where a day trip produced the two breeding endemics- Cyprus Wheatear and Cyprus Warbler--as well as an obliging family of Spectacled Warblers. Mainland highlights included both species of trumpeter finch, three Demoiselle Cranes, Great and Little Bustards, many threatened waterfowl including White-headed, Ferruginous and Marbled Ducks, and Dalmatian Pelican, superlative views of Imperial and Lesser Spotted Eagles in the air together, great looks at See-see Partridge, five Eleonora's Falcons at Ulubat Golu, Questar looks at Caspian Snowcock, a late Terek Sandpiper at the Kizilirmak Delta, the second Turkish record of Spotted Sandgrouse, great looks at a Pallid Scops Owl at a nest with three partially grown young, both Grey-faced and White-backed Woodpeckers on the last day of the trip, both Radde's and Alpine Accentors, a host of attractive buntings and wheatears, and a pair of Pale Rockfinches visiting a nest in south-east Anatolia. Coupled with the great scenery and friendly people, it was a great trip. We also got the chance to study many distinctive races of more widespread species, taxa which may, at some point, deserve species status, under the phylogenetic species concept. Disappointments were few: Wallcreeper was seen very briefly by just two people, Auduoin's Gull, always difficult in the eastern Mediterranean, eluded us, and bad weather thwarted our efforts to find what would have otherwise been an easy bird, Caucasian Black Grouse. The group consisted of Louise Augustine, Mark Elwonger, Mike Flieg, Pete Ginsberg, Paul Keller, Guy Kirwan, Firdous Raja, and Don Rathbun.