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 25 (2) Autumn 2003
Blad Ibis Geronticus eremita taken by Hanne & Jens Eriksen
| 82 | EDITORIAL |
| 83 | OSME NEWS |
| 86 | NEWS AND INFORMATION |
| compiled by GUY M. KIRWAN | |
| 92 | REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION |
| 93 | Socotra: Yemen’s special island |
| RICHARD PORTER | |
| 103 | Distribution and abundance of Tengmalm’s Owl Aegolius funereus on Mount Pirin, south-west Bulgaria |
| PETER SHURULINKOV, GEORGE STOYANOV, PETKO TZVETKOV, KOSTADIN VULCHEV, RUMEN KOLCHAGOV AND MIHAELA ILIEVA | |
| 117 | A long-term bird survey of Kulu Golu, Turkey (2001-2002) |
| IAN M. RICHARDSON | |
| 122 | The status of desert birds in Kuwait |
| P. J. COWAN AND C. W. T. PILCHER | |
| 126 | Some moult data for raptors in Kuwait |
| GEORGE GREGORY | |
| 132 | Phenology of passerine migration in central Jordan |
| FARES KHOURY | |
| 143 | The first Siberian White Cranes Grus leucogeranus in Jordan |
| NASHAT A. HAMIDAN | |
| 144 | On the large gulls of the southern coast of Iran |
| PHILIPPE J. DUBOIS | |
| 146 | A European Stonechat Saxicola rubicola in northern Iran |
| MANUEL SCHWEIZER | |
| 147 | A new record of Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus in Syria |
| DAVE A. SHOWLER AND DAVE S. FARROW | |
| 148 | Further observations and probable breeding of Mongolian Trumpeter Finch Bucanetes mongolicus in Armenia |
| VASIL ANANIAN AND SIMON BUSUTTIL | |
| 150 | Second record of Swinhoe’s Storm-petrel Oceanodroma monorhis at Eilat, Israel |
| REUVEN YOSEF, MARTIN RYDBERG-HEDEN AND REUBEN NIKOLAJSEN | |
| 152 | REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE |
| 154 | AROUND THE REGION |
| Compiled by DAWN BALMER AND KEITH BETTON |
| Editor: | Guy M. Kirwan |
| Features Editor | Situation Vacant |
| Assistant Editor | Dawn Balmer |
| Editorial Committee | Mikael Blair, Paul Goriup, Mike Jennings, Rodney Martins, Peter L. Meininger & Dr Stephen Newton |
| Photographic Editor | Paul Doherty |
| Design & Production | Harry I. Scott |
| Identification Consultants | C. G. Bradshaw,Arnoud B. den Berg & Steve Madge |