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 20 (2) Autumn 1998
Male Grey Hypocolius Hypocolius ampelinus, taken by Dr Mike Hill in Bahrain.
| 82 | OSME NEWS |
| 84 | NEWS AND INFORMATION |
| 86 | REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION |
| 87 | Habitat selection by Syrian Serin Serinus syriacus in south-west Jordan |
| FARES KHOURY | |
| 94 | Kibbutz Lotan-gem of the Arava valley, Israel |
| JAMES SMITH | |
| 102 | PROFILE Adnan Budieri |
| DEREK HARVEY | |
| 105 | PHOTOSPOT Hume’s Tawny Owl |
| ROY E. WRANES | |
| 108 | Comments on the limits of the Western Palearctic in Iran and the Arabian Peninsula |
| R. P. MARTINS AND ERIK HIRSCHFELD | |
| 135 | The birds of semi-desert areas of central Iraq |
| KHALID Y. AL-DABBAGH | |
| 142 | Seawatching at Ras Beirut, Lebanon in spring 1997 |
| SIMON BUSUTIL AND DAVE FLUMM | |
| 143 | Migrant raptors at Krak des Chevaliers, Syria |
| M. J. AND E. A. EVERETT | |
| 144 | A February record of Demoiselle Crane Anthropoides virgo in south Turkey |
| EDWIN W. A. M. VAASEN | |
| 145 | The first Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea in Yemen and the Middle East |
| DAVID B. STANTON | |
| 146 | Bar-tailed Desert Lark Ammomanes cincturus and Black-crowned Finch Lark Eremopterix nigriceps breeding in Kuwait |
| P. J. COWAN AND D. L. NEWMAN | |
| 147 | The first Semi-collared Flycatcher records Ficedula semitorquata in Lebanon |
| SIMON BUSUTTIL AND DAVE FLUMM | |
| 150 | REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE |
| 157 | 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 |