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 24 (1) 2002
Pander’s Ground Jay Podoces panderi, taken by Tim Loseby.
| 2 | OSME NEWS |
| 2 | NEWS AND INFORMATION |
| compiled by DEREK MOORE AND GUY M. KIRWAN | |
| 8 | REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION |
| 9 | Middle East birding contacts and organisations |
| EFFIE WARR | |
| 13 | The Turkmenian Kopet |
| Dag M. CALDERBANK | |
| 19 | PHOTOSPOT Black-headed Heron |
| JØRN R.GUSTAD | |
| 22 | Decline in breeding Sociable Plover Chettusia gregaria in the steppes of Naurzum and Korgalzhyn, Kazakhstan |
| GÖTZ EICHHORN AND VALERI V. KHROKOV | |
| 28 | Lek-like behaviour by Chukar Alectoris chukar, a socially monogamous partridge |
| SALIT KARK | |
| 33 | Further notes on the breeding biology of some birds in Saudi Arabia |
| PETER CASTELL, JEFFORY COBURN, BERNARD PLEASANCE, TOM QUITTENDEN AND MOHAMMED SHOBRAK | |
| 38 | Birds of Goksu Dam (Diyarbakir) and new records in south-east Turkey |
| RECEP KARAKAS AND AHMET KILIÇ | |
| 44 | Bird notes from Lebanon, including two new species |
| T. BARA | |
| 46 | Recent observations of some rare breeding birds in Armenia |
| VASIL ANANIAN, SIMON BUSUTTIL AND MARK FINN | |
| 48 | Significant bird observations from Iran, August-September 1998 |
| KONRAD ALI SACHANOWICZ, PIOTR KARCZMARCZYK AND ADAM OLSZEWSKI | |
| 52 | The first breeding records of Citrine Wagtail Motacilla citreola and Savi’s Warbler Locustella luscinioides in Armenia |
| VASIL ANANIAN AND SIMON BUSUTTIL | |
| 53 | The first Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica in Jordan |
| GRAHAM TEBB AND NASHAT HAMIDAN | |
| 55 | Biometric variation in three migratory Accipiter species at Eilat, Israel |
| REUVEN YOSEF, JAN LONTKOWSKI, TADEUSZ STAWARCZYK AND PETER FEHERVARI | |
| 58 | First record of Green Warbler Phylloscopus nitidus in western Saudi Arabia |
| S. OSTROWSKI AND E. GUINARD | |
| 60 | An unusual Long-legged Buzzard Buteo rufinus at Eilat, Israel |
| REUVEN YOSEF, WILLIAM S. CLARK AND STEVE HOFFMAN | |
| 63 | First ringing record of Pied Stonechat Saxicola caprata in the Western Palearctic, at Eilat, Israel |
| REUVEN YOSEF AND MARTIN RYDBERG-HEDAEN | |
| 65 | The first Red-knobbed Coots Fulica cristata in Oman and the Middle East |
| JØRN R. GUSTAD AND KOLBJØRN SCHJØLBERG | |
| 68 | PROFILE |
| Keith Betton DAWN BALMER | |
| 69 | REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE |
| 76 | AROUND THE REGION |
| Compiled by DAWN BALMER AND KEITH BETTON |
| Editor: | Guy M. Kirwan |
| Features Editor | Situation Vacant |
| Assistant Editor | Situation Vacant |
| 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 |