One look at the numbers of, say, Richard's Pipit or Pallas's Leaf Warbler that reach Europe is enough to understand that Asian passerines reach the continent on a regular basis. It made me curious. I therefore started the Asian connection project. I will analyse records of passerines ringed in Europe and recovered in Asia (and sometimes vice versa). I aim to summarize the results in a magazine article, but why not keep you posted on preliminary results? I'm grateful to all bird ringers for their valuable work, all individual ringing schemes that sent me data and EURING for their help.