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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

2OSME NEWS
  
3NEWS AND INFORMATION
  
7REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
  
8Observations 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
12Birding in the Göksu Delta, south Turkey
 HILARY WELCH
16PROFILE Major Michael Gallagher MBE
 DEREK HARVEY
18PHOTOSPOT White-eyed and Sooty Gulls on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia
 DR. GRAHAM R. LOBLEY
22The 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
30A 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
39Five new bird species in Bahrain
 MICHAL SKAKUJ AND TADEUSZ STAWARCZYK
45Breeding birds of the Taurus foothills bordering the Göksu Delta, south Turkey
 JAN VAN DER WINDEN AND VINCENT VAN DEN BERK
51Preliminary observations of the incubation and covey behaviour of Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis undulata macqueenii
 FRÉDÉRIC LAUNAY, RONALD A. LOUGHLAND AND ELENA MUKHINA
56Birds new to Qatar
 BOB NATION, HELEN NATION AND ANDREW HOOPER
63The second-calendar year plumage of Crab Plover Dromas ardeola
 MICHAL SKAKUJ, ERIK HIRSCHFELD, JAN LONTKOWSKI AND TADEUSZ STAWARCZYK
65Graceful Prinia Prinia gracilis colonisation of Kuwait
 C. W. T. PILCHER, W. A. STUART AND S. T. SPENCER
68The first Red-fronted Serin Serinus pusillus in Jordan
 FARES KHOURY
68New information on the breeding biology of Cretzschmar’s Bunting Emberiza caesia
 PETER CASTELL
70REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE
  
76AROUND THE REGION
 P. DAVIDSON AND G. M. KIRWAN
Editor:Guy M. Kirwan
Features EditorDerek Harvey
Assistant EditorIan J. Andrews
Editorial CommitteeDuncan J. Brooks, Mike Evans, Ben Hoare, Mike Jennings, Rodney Martins & Dr Stephen Newton
Photographic EditorPaul Doherty
Design & ProductionHarry I. Scott
Identification ConsultantsC. G. Bradshaw, Arnoud B. den Berg & Steve Madge