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 21 (1) Spring 1999
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Small Skylark Alauda gulgula, taken by Leo J.R. Boon at Eilat, Israel.
2 | OSME NEWS |
2 | NEWS AND INFORMATION |
4 | REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION |
5 | PHOTOSPOT Lichtenstein’s Sandgrouse |
HADORAM SHIRIHAI, REUVEN YOSEF, PAUL DOHERTY & DAN ALON | |
9 | PROFILE Hadoram Shirihai |
GUY M. KIRWAN & RICHARD PORTER | |
10 | Jordan Bird Report 1995-97 |
IAN J. ANDREWS, FARES KHOURY & HADORAM SHIRIHAI | |
36 | A checklist of the birds of Israel and Jordan |
HADORAM SHIRIHAI IAN J. ANDREWS, GUY M. KIRWAN & PETER DAVIDSON | |
45 | Fifty species new to Israel, 1979-1998: their discovery and documentation, with tips on identification |
HADORAM SHIRIHAI | |
106 | REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE |
108 | AROUND THE REGION GUY M. 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 |