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 42 (2) Autumn 2020
Cover photo: Arabian Lark Eremalauda eremodites, recently split from the African Dunn’s Lark E. dunni, is high on the wish-lists of most birders visiting Arabia. The larks were a favourite family of the late Peter Cowan, former Editor of Sandgrouse, to whom a photographic tribute appears in this issue of Sandgrouse. © Gary Brown
| 186 | Updated checklist of the birds of Lebanon, with notes on four new breeding species in spring 2020. |
| Ghassan Ramadan-Jaradi, Fouad Itani, James Hogg, Assad Serhal & Mona Ramadan-Jaradi | |
| 239 | The illegal trapping of large falcons in Jordan. |
| Fares Khoury, Cheryl Makarevicz, Abdel-Razzaq Al-Hmoud & Steve Mithen | |
| 248 | Congregations and threats of migratory Egyptian Vultures Neophron percnopterus along the southwest coast of Saudi Arabia. |
| Mohammed Shobrak, Saheem Alasmari, Abdulaziz Alqthami, Fahad Alqthami, Abdoulrahman Al-Otaibi, Mohammad Al Zoubi, Laith El Moghrabi, Sharif Jbour, Volen Arkumarev, Steffen Oppel, Nabegh Ghazal Asswad & Stoyan C. Nikolov | |
| 259 | Long-term decline in the number of Sociable Lapwings Vanellus gregarius at the key migration stopover site of the Manych depression in south-western Russia. |
| Viktor Fedosov, Lyubov Malovichko, Maxim Koshkin & Rob D Sheldon | |
| 270 | An updated status assessment of ‘Baltic’ Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus fuscus in Saudi Arabia. |
| Jem Babbington & Phil Roberts | |
| 276 | First efforts to address bird collisions with power lines in Iran. |
| Mahmood Kolnegari, Etezad Moghimi, Mohammad Allahdad, Mandana Hazrati, Ali Akbar Basiri, Reza Jafari, Mohammadali Yektanik, Mohammad Jalalpour, Ali Sajjad Jalali, Mohsen Mojaradiafra, Hassan Abbasi Kohan, Hamid Reza Izadi, Nick P Williams, Miguel Ferrer & Greg J Conway | |
| 282 | White-faced Whistling Ducks Dendrocygna viduata and breeding Red-knobbed Coots Fulica cristata on Socotra – the first records for Yemen. |
| Ahmed Saeed Suleiman | |
| 286 | The first records of Indian Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone paradisi from the United Arab Emirates and the Arabian peninsula, with notes on their identification. |
| Simon Lloyd, Oscar Campbell & Graham Talbot | |
| 291 | First records of Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor in Iran for over a century. |
| Ali Sajjad Jalali, Habib Alvani, Keramat Hafezi & Ali T. Qashqaei | |
| 294 | Summer observations of Goldcrest Regulus regulus and European Serin Serinus serinus in Armenia. |
| Marko Raković, Sargis Aghayan, Sergei V. Drovetski, Ivan Medenica & Karen Aghababyan | |
| 298 | First documented breeding of Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus in Kuwait. |
| Laila Ashour, Mohammed Alzayer & Mohammed Alshamlih | |
| 302 | Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus, a new species for Azerbaijan and the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. |
| Hüseyn S Resulzade | |
| 305 | Meadow Bunting Emberiza cioides, new to Uzbekistan. |
| Nigel J Collar & Paul M Dolman | |
| 308 | PhotoSpot: Desert larks in Arabia – in memory of Peter J Cowan. |
| Gary Brown | |
| 320 | From the Rarities Committees. |
| Ian Harrison (Compiler) | |
| 331 | Letter from the Chairman. |
| Rob Sheldon | |
| 333 | Notice of OSME 42nd Annual General Meeting |
| 334 | The OSME Conservation Fund, 2019-2020. |
| Maxim Koshkin On Behalf Of The Osme Conservation Fund Sub-Committee | |
| 345 | Book review: Oceanic Birds of the World: a Photo Guide. |
| Nina O’hanlon | |
| 347 | Around the Region. |
| Ian Harrison (Compiler) |