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 19 (1) Spring 1997
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Sooty Falcon Falco concolor, Hawar Island, Bahrain taken by Dr. Mike Hill
2 | OSME NEWS |
3 | NEWS AND INFORMATION |
7 | REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION |
8 | Observations of Dunn’s Larks Eremalauda dunni in the Ramlat al-Sab’atayn, Republic of Yemen |
C. D. R. HEARD AND GUY M. KIRWAN, on behalf of the OSME SOUTH YEMEN EXPEDITION | |
12 | Birding in the Göksu Delta, south Turkey |
HILARY WELCH | |
16 | PROFILE Major Michael Gallagher MBE |
DEREK HARVEY | |
18 | PHOTOSPOT White-eyed and Sooty Gulls on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia |
DR. GRAHAM R. LOBLEY | |
22 | The birds of the islands at the mouth of the Gulf of Suez, Egyptian Red Sea |
RICHARD HOATH, DR. DEREK RUSSELL, RAFIK KHALIL AND DINA KHALIL | |
30 | A list of bird specimens held in the Robert’s College, Bebek (Istanbul, Turkey) collection, with some comments on Mathey-Dupraz (1920-24) |
GUY M. KIRWAN | |
39 | Five new bird species in Bahrain |
MICHAL SKAKUJ AND TADEUSZ STAWARCZYK | |
45 | Breeding birds of the Taurus foothills bordering the Göksu Delta, south Turkey |
JAN VAN DER WINDEN AND VINCENT VAN DEN BERK | |
51 | Preliminary observations of the incubation and covey behaviour of Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis undulata macqueenii |
FRÉDÉRIC LAUNAY, RONALD A. LOUGHLAND AND ELENA MUKHINA | |
56 | Birds new to Qatar |
BOB NATION, HELEN NATION AND ANDREW HOOPER | |
63 | The second-calendar year plumage of Crab Plover Dromas ardeola |
MICHAL SKAKUJ, ERIK HIRSCHFELD, JAN LONTKOWSKI AND TADEUSZ STAWARCZYK | |
65 | Graceful Prinia Prinia gracilis colonisation of Kuwait |
C. W. T. PILCHER, W. A. STUART AND S. T. SPENCER | |
68 | The first Red-fronted Serin Serinus pusillus in Jordan |
FARES KHOURY | |
68 | New information on the breeding biology of Cretzschmar’s Bunting Emberiza caesia |
PETER CASTELL | |
70 | 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 | Duncan J. Brooks, Mike Evans, Ben Hoare, 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 |