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 (1) Spring 1998
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus, taken by Hanne & Jens Eriksen at Sohar, Oman
| 2 | OSME NEWS |
| 3 | NEWS AND INFORMATION |
| 7 | REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION |
| 8 | Pale Rock Sparrow Carpospiza brachydactyla a little known Middle Eastern bird |
| GUY M. KIRWAN | |
| 13 | Birding in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon |
| CHRIS AND ALISON WALLEY | |
| 17 | PROFILE Mike Jennings |
| DEREK HARVEY | |
| 18 | PHOTOSPOT Arabian and Radde’s Accentor |
| RODNEY P. MARTINS | |
| 22 | The breeding birds of the Sharra Highland Plateau, Jordan |
| FARES KHOURY | |
| 30 | The effects of disturbance on migrant waders at Eilat, Israel |
| R. L. GLASER, K. HORSEPOOL, N. SIMHAI AND R. YOSEF | |
| 36 | Video monitoring observations of a Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis undulata nest in Mahazat as-Sayd Reserve, central Saudi Arabia |
| RICHARD F. MALONEY | |
| 40 | Selected records from Cheikh Zennad, a coastal wetland in north-east Lebanon |
| THIERRY BARA | |
| 46 | The first Mute Swan Cygnus olor and Radde’s Accentor Prunella ocularis in Jordan |
| ERIK HANSSON, ANDERS MAGNUSSON AND PER ERIKSSON | |
| 47 | Breeding survey of White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala on the Central Plateau, Turkey |
| KATHERINE ROBINSON, LUCY HOLT, YVONNE BUCKLEY, TIM PULLEN, KEREM BOYLA AND OKAN CAN | |
| 48 | The first Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris in Yemen |
| AAAT SCHAFTENAAR | |
| 49 | The first breeding record of Swift Tern Sterna bergii in Egypt |
| PETER CASTELL | |
| 52 | Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus breeding in the Nile Delta, Egypt |
| PETER L. MEININGER AND A. (JANUS) VERKERK | |
| 53 | Notes on the breeding and cooling behaviour of Hoopoe Lark in central Saudi Arabia |
| MOHAMMED SHOBRAK | |
| 55 | The first Banded Martin Riparia cincta in Saudi Arabia |
| C. M. SAUNDERS AND G. G. WEBBO | |
| 56 | Colour polymorphism in Eleonora’s Falcon Falco eleonorae |
| D. RISTOW, C. WINK, M. WINK AND W. SCHARLAU | |
| 66 | The birds of some of Yemen’s Red Sea islands |
| R. F. PORTER AND DR OMAR AL-SAGHIER | |
| 68 | REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE |
| 76 | AROUND THE REGION |
| P. DAVIDSON AND G. M. KIRWAN |
| Editor: | Guy M. Kirwan |
| Features Editor | Derek Harvey |
| Assistant Editor | Ian J. Andrews |
| Editorial Committee | Mikael Blair, Duncan J. Brooks, Mike Jennings, Rodney Martins & Dr Stephen Newton |
| Photographic Editor | Paul Doherty |
| Design & Production | Harry I. Scott |
| Identification Consultants | C. G. Bradshaw,Arnoud B. den Berg & Steve Madge |