Conference of the Birds
Guest blog by Joumana Medlej The hoopoe symbolises the spiritual guide nudging the other birds to set out. The “Conference of the Birds” is a 12th-century Sufi poem by Attar of Nishapur, that is a timeless parable of...
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Decreasing the mortality rate of Egyptian Vultures during migration in Turkey
Guest blog by Safak Arslan Mersin Study Area (Photo: Mahmut Koyaş) The Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus is globally threatened and one of the species which is in most rapid decline across its range including the Eastern Europe...
Trevor Poyser Species Conservation Fund supports Saker Falcon and Egyptian Vulture project
The 2022 Trevor Poyser Species Conservation Fund grant has been awarded to the Biodiversity Research and Conservation Center Community Trust (BRCC) in Kazakhstan for the “protection of Saker Falcon and Egyptian Vulture in the Karatau Mountains, South...
A future for Birds in Lebanon
Guest blog by Fouad Itani Lebanon lies on one of the most important migration routes for birds, the Eastern Mediterranean Flyway. Thus a significant number and variety of birds pass through the country, or winter in it...
Worlds Collide – Migration through the Bottleneck
Guest blog by Nicholas Rodd About the film: Batumi, Georgia is home to one of the world’s greatest natural spectacles. Over a million birds of prey pass through a narrow bottleneck. Below them, scientists and birders eagerly...
Satellite tagging and tracking Egyptian Vultures in Uzbekistan
A guest blog by Anna Ten and Valentin Soldatov The idea of tagging Egyptian Vultures was hatched a long time ago by our team, Dr Vladimir Dobrev (BSPB), Dr John Burnside (University of East Anglia), and us...
29th January 2022 – OSME’s next online Winter Meeting
The OSME online Winter Meeting: 29th January 2022 We’ll be holding an online Winter Meeting on Saturday 29th January. The meeting is free, and all members and non-members are invited to attend. The full programme is now...
Cyprus bird records: request for information
Peter Flint & Colin Richardson are preparing the third edition of The Birds of Cyprus (further details on ResearchGate). It will be a comprehensive and completely revised avifauna of the whole island of Cyprus to be published within the BOC (formerly...
OSME Chairman’s overview of 2021
Despite the ongoing global pandemic, 2021 was another very successful year for OSME with continued growth in our conservation work across the region. It was yet another exceptional year for our small grants programmes. In January we...
Save the date: 29th January 2022 – OSME’s next online Winter Meeting
Since the coronavirus pandemic started back in early 2020 OSME have held several of our meetings online and they have been hugely popular with our members and supporters. The feedback from the online meetings has been overwhelmingly...
A Bird Camp on Cyprus
Guest blog by Robin Snape A Bird Camp on Cyprus had been discussed and planned since early 2020 in collaboration with OSME Youth Development Officer, Tomas Axén Haraldsson. Due to the prolonged pandemic, it has been postponed...
Raptor Count Lebanon 2021
Guest blog by Louis Junior Saad Despite all international birdwatchers cancelling their trips due to Covid and nationwide circumstances, the SPNL Raptor Count Lebanon, was held again at Hammana on Mount Lebanon overlooking the city of Beirut...
The Trevor Poyser Species Conservation Fund: call for applications
The Trevor Poyser Species Conservation Fund is now open for applications until the 1st December 2021. The fund supports research projects that lead to clear conservation benefits for a Globally Threatened species that occurs within the OSME...
Help count waterbirds in the OSME Region: please join the International Waterbird Census
Guest blog by Szabolcs Nagy Although the OSME region is dominated by deserts and dry land, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Black and Caspian Sea, the Gulf, the Arabian and the Red Sea and the inland wetlands are...