OSME 43rd Annual General Meeting
We will be holding this digitally via Zoom on Saturday June the 19th2021 from 14.00 BST (13.00 GMT) for a maximum of an hour. Copies of the draft minutes of the 42nd AGM and the Draft Trustee...
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The OSME online Summer Meeting: 12th June 2021
We will again be holding our Summer Meeting online and it is free to attend and open to all. The full programme is now available here The meeting will be held using Zoom, and please register as...
Raptor Count Lebanon – call for volunteers
Once again OSME is teaming up with the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) to repeat the successful count of migrating soaring birds in autumn 2019 made with the help of BirdLife Sweden and...
Dates for your diary
OSME Virtual Summer Meeting We are delighted to be holding another online summer meeting that will feature a range of presenters from across the region. This will take place on Saturday 12 June 2021 at 10:30am BST...
Arabic field guide App – new iOS update
Our free Arabic App was launched in April 2018 and so far has been downloaded almost 6000 times. This is an encouraging start and working with the NatureGuides, the App designers, we’ve made some improvements which we...
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...
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...
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...
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 Trevor Poyser Species Conservation Fund: call for applications
The Trevor Poyser Species Conservation Fund is now open for applications until the 1st December 2020. The fund supports research projects that lead to clear conservation benefits for a Globally Threatened species that occurs within the OSME...
OSME’s 42nd Annual General Meeting – register now to attend our first online AGM
This year, due to COVID-19, and in line with guidance from the Charity Commission, the OSME Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held online via Zoom. All members are invited to attend and non-members will be able...
OSME is now on YouTube
We have recently set up a YouTube channel to enable us to post video content that is relevant to the work of OSME and the birds of our wonderful region. The first video to be posted is...