3rd Falconry Festival, UAE, 10-18 December 2011
Falconry but with a concern for the balance of nature Omar Fadhil recently represented Nature Iraq at the third falconry
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Recent News about the Collared Kingfisher, UAE.
The following is an article published by the newspaper, The National. http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/environment/rare-kingfisher-thre… Rare kingfisher threatened by demise of mangroves While
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Obituary: Simon Aspinall
Simon Aspinall, known personally or by reputation to birders throughout the OSME region, died in Norfolk on 31st October 2011
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Sultanate of Oman hosts an International Conference on Migratory Shorebirds
An International Conference, ‘Oman as a gravitational centre in the global flyway network of migratory shorebirds’ was recently organised by
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Sooty Falcon Research Project Extended. (From the Muscat Daily)
(www.muscatdaily.com)The Office for Conservation of Environment (OCE), Diwan of Royal Court, which started research on sooty falcons in 2007 along
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Abolghasem Khaleghizadeh, Editor of PODOCES, has recently circulated three papers on rare birds in Iran. Two of these cover the period 1860-1970:
Scott D.A. 2008. Rare birds in Iran in the late 1960s and 1970s. Podoces 3(1/2): 1–30. Roselaar C.S. & Aliabadian
Upper Akkar… One of the Middle East’s Major Spots for Witnessing an Amazing Spectacle of Soaring Bird Migration!
The African Rift Valley/Red Sea flyway, on which the mountains of Lebanon lie as a ‘bottleneck’, is one of the
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Wildlife rangers to be trained in anti-smuggling skills
The following article appeared in the newspaper Gulf News on September 16, 2011. While the wild bird trade is not
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Experts reach agreements on mainstreaming migratory soaring birds’ conservation into the hunting sector in the Rift Valley/Red Sea region
BirdLife International and its Partners concluded a productive three day regional workshop which brought together representatives from governments and NGOs
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Migratory Soaring Project: New Regional Flyway Facility staff in the BirdLife International Amman Office, Jordan (September 2011)
Ibrahim Khader, Regional Director, BirdLife International, Middle East Division has informed OSME of new appointments in the Migratory Soaring Project.
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Oman breaks the 500 barrier!
The Oman bird list now stands at 500 after the recent acceptance by the Oman Bird Records Committee of an
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Arabian Leopard Appeal, Eastern Yemen
While the Arabian Leopard Panthera pardus nimr is strictly speaking not within the remit of OSME, we feel that the
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The documentary “Important areas for birds and other wildlife in Cyprus” is now available to order
In July 2011, BirdLife Cyprus launched the DVD documentary “Important areas for birds and other wildlife in Cyprus”. This presents
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OSME at the Rutland Birdfair
OSME members are presenting on two occasions at this year’s Birdfair. In addition to giving a plenary lecture during the