Sandgrouse 22 2

Sandgrouse is published by OSME and contains papers and short notes on the ornithology of the OSME region, provides bird and conservation news from the region and a comprehensive round up of bird sightings in the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Sandgrouse Volume 22 (2) Autumn 2000

Sandgrouse Cover 22 (2)

Eagle Owl Bubo bubo, taken by Leo Boon at Eilat, Israel, January 1993.

82OSME NEWS
  
84REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
  
85NEWS AND INFORMATION
  
87Habitat, distribution and breeding biology of Orphean Warbler Sylvia hortensis in south-east Bulgaria
 BOCA MILCHEV AND ANTON KOVACHEV
93Dhahran: an Arabian Gulf hotspot
 DR GRAHAM R. LOBLEY
101PHOTOSPOT Collared Pratincoles breeding in Oman
 HANNE AND JENS ERIKSEN
104The desert birds of south-west Asia
 P. J. COWAN
109The occurence of the North African subspecies of Mourning Wheatear Oenanthe lugens halophila in Egypt
 SHERIF M. BAHA EL DIN AND MINDY BAHA EL DIN
113Primary moult in Egyptian Nightjar Caprimulgus aegyptius on autumn migration in Kuwait
 GEORGE GREGORY
118A characterisation of the homozygous dark morph of Eleonora’s Falcon
 D. RISTOW, L. WITTE AND M. WINK
122Notes on the birds of Lebanon, autumn-winter 1999
 COLIN BEALE
125Shearwater passage along the north Cyprus coast
 ARTHUR STAGG
125The first Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis in Qatar and the Arabian Gulf
 PETER HELLYER
127The first Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens in Jordan
 HADORAM SHIRIHAI, FARES KHOURY, SHARIF AL-JBOUR AND REUVEN YOSEF
130The first Fulvous Whistling-duck Dendrocygna bicolor in Yemen and the Middle East
 DAVID B. STANTON
131The first Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma in Israel and the Western Palearctic
 HADORAM SHIRIHAI
133First and second records of Crested Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus in Iran
 MARC DUQUET AND COLIN RICHARDSON
135Comments on the buzzards of the Central Plateau, Turkey
 ALAN VITTERY
136Cannibalism and scavenging by wintering Coot Fulica atra
 REUVEN YOSEF
137The first Lesser Moorhen Gallinula angulata in Egypt and the Western Palearctic
 SEPPA HAAVISTO AND ANTE STRAND
139Status of White-tailed Plover Chettusia leucura and Sociable Plover Chettusia gregaria in coastal north-west Saudi Arabia–an addendum to Kasparek (1992)
 BRIAN S. MEADOWS
141Physical characteristics of a hybrid Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica x House Martin Delichon urbica at Eilat, Israel
 REUVEN YOSEF
143Two new bird species in Kuwait
 N. CLEERE, D. KELLY AND C. W. T. PILCHER
145The first breeding record of Bearded Tit Panurus biarmicus in Syria
 JOSÉ TAVARES, PEDRO SÁ PESSOA AND FAUSTO BRITO E ABREU
146Notes on the breeding biology of Arabian Babbler Turdoides squamiceps and nestlings of Common MynaAcridotheres tristis
 PETER CASTELL
148PROFILE Geoff & Hilary Welch
 DEREK HARVEY
152REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE
  
156AROUND THE REGION
 CHRIS G. BRADSHAW AND GUY KIRWAN
Editor:Guy M. Kirwan
Features EditorDerek Harvey
Assistant EditorIan J. Andrews
Editorial CommitteeMikael Blair, Paul Goriup, Ben Hoare, Mike Jennings, Rodney Martins, Peter L. Meininger & Dr Stephen Newton
Photographic EditorPaul Doherty
Design & ProductionHarry I. Scott
Identification ConsultantsC. G. Bradshaw,Arnoud B. den Berg & Steve Madge