Egyptian Vulture – a Bird on the Brink
OSME are delighted to join forces with Birds on the Brink to co-fund a project on the Endangered Egyptian Vulture in Turkey. The project will be implemented by the BirdLife Partner, Doğa, and is a follow on...
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OSME Chairman’s overview of 2020
The year 2020 will undoubtedly be remembered for the global pandemic which has affected so many people around the world. As with many small charities, the unprecedented situation has thrown up many challenges that have impacted the...
A Double-MEGA-twitch in Lebanon
Guest blog by Fouad Itani Lebanon has been in the news a lot in the past few years, a refugee crisis following the war in Syria, on-going economic crises and the depreciation of the Lebanese pound, a...
Syrian Serin supported by the Trevor Poyser Species Conservation Fund
The 2021 Trevor Poyser Species Conservation Fund will fund a breeding survey of the Syrian Serin in Lebanon by the Association for Bird Conservation in Lebanon (ABCL). Trevor Poyser was a giant of ornithological publishing, joint founder...
Booklet of Protection of Migratory Birds in Lebanon
The Lebanese bird conservation community is increasingly successful in its struggle to protect the millions of migratory birds passing over their narrow piece of land along the eastern Mediterranean. A pdf booklet free to download has been...
OSME’s first online Winter Meeting: 23rd January 2021
Following on from the success of our first-ever online Summer Meeting using Zoom, we’ll be holding an online Winter Meeting on Saturday 23rd January. The full programme is now available here. The meeting will be held using...
Turkey’s Largest Egyptian Vulture Breeding Area
Guest blog by Şafak Arslan of Doga The Egyptian Vulture is globally threatened and among the species in most rapid decline across its range including the Eastern Europe populations. Previous studies by Doga (the BirdLife Partner in...
OSME’s 42nd Annual General Meeting
We held our first ever Zoom AGM on Saturday November the 28th and it was great to see so many members joining us from around the world. One of the few silver linings to the coronavirus pandemic has...
Finding Steppe Whimbrel in Abu Dhabi
Guest blog by Oscar Campbell – with thanks to Simon Lloyd The start of it all. It was this image that really got us thinking seriously that we might, at last, have got the cigar. The underwing...
Armenian Ups and Downs: Diary notes and photographs of three visiting naturalists in Armenia
By Peter Marren and Richard Price. Privately published. 2020. Hardback. 76pp. Price £20 (£15 for OSME members)[Available from Home Farm Publishing Company, Letheringsett, Norfolk NR25 7JL, UK] Armenia is a small mountainous country in the Lesser Caucasus...
Save the date: 23rd January 2021 – OSME’s first online Winter Meeting
OSME will hold their first ever Winter Meeting online n 23rd January 2021, a hugely successful online Summer Meeting using Zoom.
The OSME expedition to Yemen in 1985 – personal reflections
Guest blog by Chris Bowden The opportunity to spend two months in the field in North Yemen (as it was at the time) was something that I had no hesitation in applying to join… and what an...
The Socotra Wildlife Association – conserving wildlife through awareness and capacity building
Guest blog by Ali Yahya Ali Bin Mahrous and Nasser Abdulrahman Ahmed of the Socotra Wildlife Association The Socotra Wildlife Association is a non-governmental, voluntary, environmental organization established in November 2014 and officially registered at the local branch...
Birds of Faynan, Past and Present
Steven Mithen, Fares Khoury, Ben Greet, Judith White and Nebras Maslamani. 2019. Birds of Faynan: past and present. Faynan Heritage. University of Reading, Reading, UK, pp197. ISBN 9780704915909. (In English and Arabic) Hardcopy price is uncertain: Amazon...