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 22 (2) Autumn 2000
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Eagle Owl Bubo bubo, taken by Leo Boon at Eilat, Israel, January 1993.
82 | OSME NEWS |
84 | REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION |
85 | NEWS AND INFORMATION |
87 | Habitat, distribution and breeding biology of Orphean Warbler Sylvia hortensis in south-east Bulgaria |
BOCA MILCHEV AND ANTON KOVACHEV | |
93 | Dhahran: an Arabian Gulf hotspot |
DR GRAHAM R. LOBLEY | |
101 | PHOTOSPOT Collared Pratincoles breeding in Oman |
HANNE AND JENS ERIKSEN | |
104 | The desert birds of south-west Asia |
P. J. COWAN | |
109 | The occurence of the North African subspecies of Mourning Wheatear Oenanthe lugens halophila in Egypt |
SHERIF M. BAHA EL DIN AND MINDY BAHA EL DIN | |
113 | Primary moult in Egyptian Nightjar Caprimulgus aegyptius on autumn migration in Kuwait |
GEORGE GREGORY | |
118 | A characterisation of the homozygous dark morph of Eleonora’s Falcon |
D. RISTOW, L. WITTE AND M. WINK | |
122 | Notes on the birds of Lebanon, autumn-winter 1999 |
COLIN BEALE | |
125 | Shearwater passage along the north Cyprus coast |
ARTHUR STAGG | |
125 | The first Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis in Qatar and the Arabian Gulf |
PETER HELLYER | |
127 | The first Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens in Jordan |
HADORAM SHIRIHAI, FARES KHOURY, SHARIF AL-JBOUR AND REUVEN YOSEF | |
130 | The first Fulvous Whistling-duck Dendrocygna bicolor in Yemen and the Middle East |
DAVID B. STANTON | |
131 | The first Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma in Israel and the Western Palearctic |
HADORAM SHIRIHAI | |
133 | First and second records of Crested Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus in Iran |
MARC DUQUET AND COLIN RICHARDSON | |
135 | Comments on the buzzards of the Central Plateau, Turkey |
ALAN VITTERY | |
136 | Cannibalism and scavenging by wintering Coot Fulica atra |
REUVEN YOSEF | |
137 | The first Lesser Moorhen Gallinula angulata in Egypt and the Western Palearctic |
SEPPA HAAVISTO AND ANTE STRAND | |
139 | Status of White-tailed Plover Chettusia leucura and Sociable Plover Chettusia gregaria in coastal north-west Saudi Arabia–an addendum to Kasparek (1992) |
BRIAN S. MEADOWS | |
141 | Physical characteristics of a hybrid Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica x House Martin Delichon urbica at Eilat, Israel |
REUVEN YOSEF | |
143 | Two new bird species in Kuwait |
N. CLEERE, D. KELLY AND C. W. T. PILCHER | |
145 | The first breeding record of Bearded Tit Panurus biarmicus in Syria |
JOSÉ TAVARES, PEDRO SÁ PESSOA AND FAUSTO BRITO E ABREU | |
146 | Notes on the breeding biology of Arabian Babbler Turdoides squamiceps and nestlings of Common MynaAcridotheres tristis |
PETER CASTELL | |
148 | PROFILE Geoff & Hilary Welch |
DEREK HARVEY | |
152 | REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE |
156 | AROUND THE REGION |
CHRIS G. BRADSHAW AND GUY KIRWAN |
Editor: | Guy M. Kirwan |
Features Editor | Derek Harvey |
Assistant Editor | Ian J. Andrews |
Editorial Committee | Mikael Blair, Paul Goriup, Ben Hoare, 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 |