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 32 (2) Autumn 2010 Cover photo: Cory’s Shearwater Calonectris diomedea Eilat, Israel, 30 April 2010. © Amir Ben Dov
105 Contents page. 106 The birds of Wadi Rima: a permanently flowing mountain wadi in western Yemen revisited after 20 years. Paul Scholte 113 Distribution, habitat and differentiation of the poorly-known black morph of Mourning Wheatear Oenanthe lugens lugens in Jordan. Fares Khoury, Marc I Förschler, Mohammed Janaydeh, Mansour Aliabadian & Abdel-Razzaq Al-Hmoud 120 New Important Bird Areas in Lebanon—a research and community conservation project March 2005–February 2008. Nabil H Khairallah & Colin Conroy 134 First confirmed breeding record of Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius for Lebanon, 2009. Shadi Indary 136 Eradication of the House Crow Corvus splendens on Socotra, Yemen. Ahmed Saeed Suleiman & Nadim Taleb 141 On the validity of the ‘Steppe Grey Shrike’ as an independent species. Evgeniy N Panov & Anna A Bannikova 147 First record of Wilson’s Phalarope Steganopus tricolor in the United Arab Emirates. Oscar Campbell 149 First record of White-crowned Black Wheatear Oenanthe leucopyga for Iraq. Mudhafar Salim 151 Shikra Accipiter badius breeding in Armenia. Vasil Ananian, Karen Aghababyan, Siranush Tumanyan, Grigor Janoyan & Keith Bildstein 156 Breeding ecology of the White Stork Ciconia ciconia in two localities of Turkey. Çagri Göcek, Aysegül Çiftci, Mehmet Siki & Piotr Tryjanowski 163 Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca , a new breeding species for Egypt in a temporary artificial wetland near Aswan. Dick Hoek,Haitham Ibrahim & Khaled Noby 167 Western Rock Nuthatches Sitta neumayer feeding their nestlings bread, Armenia. Rolf Nessing 168 Reviews. 169 OSME News. Geoff Welch 170 News & Information. Dawn Balmer (Compiler) 176 Around the Region. Dawn Balmer & David Murdoch(Compilers)
Editor: Dr Peter Cowan OSME Editor , Department of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, University of Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman Editorial Advisors Vasil Ananian, Simon Aspinall, Paul Goriup, Mike Jennings, Dr Fares Khoury, Guy Kirwan, Dr Stephen Newton, Arend Wassink Photographic Editor Paul Doherty Reviews Editor Guy Kirwan Identification Consultants Arnoud van den Berg, Chris Bradshaw, Andrew Lassey, Richard Porter
