Sandgrouse 29 1

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 29 (1) Spring 2007

Sandgrouse
Syrian Serin Serinus syriacus May 2006, Syria © Aurélien Audevard

2EDITORIAL
  
2OSME NEWS
  
6NEWS AND INFORMATION
  
9AROUND THE REGION
 Compiled by DAWN BALMER AND KEITH BETTON
17Waterbirds in microhabitats of Selke and Espand, in the Anzali Wetlands, Iran.
 ABOLGHASHEM KHALEGHIZADEH
35The Birds of the Latian Dam and Lashgarak Area, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran – June 1972 to February 1976.
 DEREK A. SCOTT
53Avifaunal surveys of the Latian Dam and Lashgarak Area, an important IBA for migrants in Iran.
 ABOLGHASHEM KHALEGHIZADEH & MOHAMMAD E SEHHATISABET
70Preference of the White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala for wastewater reservoirs in the Judean Plain, Israel.
 EZRA HADAD & CHAIM MOYAL
79Cyprus – the autumn 2005 raptor migration at the southeast peninsula (terminating at Cape Grec).
 TOBIAS ROTH & ANDREA CORSO
94Notes on the European Bee-eater Merops apiaster in northern Iran.
 ABOLGHASHEM KHALEGHIZADEH
94An observation of Brown Fish Owl Ketupa zeylonensis in Turkey.
 OSMAN YONTEM
95Days in Iraq with the Basra Reed Warbler Acrocephalus griseldis
 OMAR FADHEL
97PHOTOSPOT: Sociable Lapwing (Vanellus gregarious) in Syria.
 DAVID MURDOCH & MIKE BLAIR
98Bird sites of the OSME region: Mheimideh – jewel on the Euphrates.
 DAVID MURDOCH
102Observation of Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus in Armenia.
 ANDRAS SCHMIDT
103The first record of Eleonora’s Falcon Falco eleonorae in Armenia.
 VASIL ANANIAN, BOSSE CARLSSON & JAN-MICHAEL BREDIER
105Raptor migration at Kazbegi, Georgia.
 GEOFF & HILARY WELCH
107First record of Carrion Crow Corvus corone for Lebanon
 RICHARD PRIOR
107The first Siberian Accentor Prunella ocularis & Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus in Turkey
 SONER BEKIR
108Plumbeous Water Redstart Rhyacornis fuliginosus – a new breeding species for Central Asia
 RAFFAEL AYE
111LETTER TO THE EDITOR –
 SIMON ASPINALL & PETER HELLYER
112REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE
Editor:Michael Blair OSME Editor
Features EditorSituation Vacant
Assistant EditorSituation Vacant
Editorial CommitteePaul Goriup, Mike Jennings, Simon Aspinall, Dr Stephen Newton
Photographic EditorPaul Doherty
Design & ProductionHarry I. Scott
Identification ConsultantsC. G. Bradshaw,Arnoud B. den Berg & Steve Madge