Sandgrouse 23 1

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 23 (1) Spring 2001

Sandgrouse Cover 23 (1)

Steppe Buzzard Buteo buteo, taken by Paul Doherty at Eilat, Israel, March 1989.

2OSME NEWS
  
3NEWS AND INFORMATION
 compiled by DEREK MOORE AND GUY M. KIRWAN
7REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
  
10Radde’s Accentor Prunella ocularis in northern Iran
 KEN G. ROGERS
18Lesbos: an eastern Mediterranean hotspot
 DAWN BALMER
25PHOTOSPOT The Pelicans of the Ile River Delta
 SIMON BUSUTIL
28The autumn raptor flyway in western Arabia north of the Taif Escarpment
 BRIAN S. MEADOWS
34Reduction of bird shooting in Kuwait
 GEORGE GREGORY, PETER ROBERTSON & BARRY THOMAS
39The occurrence of Long-billed Pipit Anthus similis in Egypt
 ANDREW GRIEVE, MINDY BAHA EL DIN & SHERIF BAHA EL DIN
44Some interesting bird observations from the coast of Iran, January-February 2000
 GUIDO O. KEIJL, TOM VAN DER HAVE, JAMSHID MANSOORI & VLADIMIR V. MOROZOV
49Notes on the breeding biology of some Arabian birds
 PETER CASTELL, JEFFORY COBURN, BERNARD PLEASANCE & STEVEN WILLIAMS
59Departure and arrival of Common Swift Apus apus in Tel Aviv, Isreal, in 1999-2000
 ULRICH TIGGES
59Prostrate desert gourd plants as apparent cooling sites for larks in the heat of the day
 P. J. COWAN & G. M. BROWN
61The first Dunnock Prunella modularis in Kuwait
 MIKE REED & TONY CROSS
62The first Black Bush Robin Cercotrichas podobe in Egypt
 MINDY BAHA EL DIN & SHERIF BAHA EL DIN
64Notes on the breeding biology of Cyprus Warbler Sylvia melanothorax
 PETER CASTELL
66Breeding Pale Rock Sparrow Carpospiza brachydactyla in the Samarian Hills and Judaen Desert, Israel
 PHILIP GRIFFIN, ASAF MAYROSE & IDO TSURIM
67The first Indian Silverbill Euodice malabarica in Egypt
 TOMMY PEDERSEN
68The breeding ecology of Syrian Serin Serinus syriacus in Jordan
 DR FARES KHOURY
70PROFILE Peter Stewart & Peter Flint
 DEREK HARVEY
72REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE
  
76AROUND THE REGION
 Compiled by GUY M. KIRWAN
Editor:Guy M. Kirwan
Features EditorDerek Harvey
Assistant EditorIan J. Andrews
Editorial CommitteeMikael Blair, Paul Goriup, Mike Jennings, Rodney Martins, Peter L. Meininger & Dr Stephen Newton
Photographic EditorPaul Doherty
Design & ProductionHarry I. Scott
Identification ConsultantsC. G. Bradshaw,Arnoud B. den Berg & Steve Madge