Sandgrouse 24 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 24 (1) 2002

Cover 24 (1)

Pander’s Ground Jay Podoces panderi, taken by Tim Loseby.

2OSME NEWS
  
2NEWS AND INFORMATION
 compiled by DEREK MOORE AND GUY M. KIRWAN
8REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
  
9Middle East birding contacts and organisations
 EFFIE WARR
13The Turkmenian Kopet
 Dag M. CALDERBANK
19PHOTOSPOT Black-headed Heron
 JØRN R.GUSTAD
22Decline in breeding Sociable Plover Chettusia gregaria in the steppes of Naurzum and Korgalzhyn, Kazakhstan
 GÖTZ EICHHORN AND VALERI V. KHROKOV
28Lek-like behaviour by Chukar Alectoris chukar, a socially monogamous partridge
 SALIT KARK
33Further notes on the breeding biology of some birds in Saudi Arabia
 PETER CASTELL, JEFFORY COBURN, BERNARD PLEASANCE, TOM QUITTENDEN AND MOHAMMED SHOBRAK
38Birds of Goksu Dam (Diyarbakir) and new records in south-east Turkey
 RECEP KARAKAS AND AHMET KILIÇ
44Bird notes from Lebanon, including two new species
 T. BARA
46Recent observations of some rare breeding birds in Armenia
 VASIL ANANIAN, SIMON BUSUTTIL AND MARK FINN
48Significant bird observations from Iran, August-September 1998
 KONRAD ALI SACHANOWICZ, PIOTR KARCZMARCZYK AND ADAM OLSZEWSKI
52The first breeding records of Citrine Wagtail Motacilla citreola and Savi’s Warbler Locustella luscinioides in Armenia
 VASIL ANANIAN AND SIMON BUSUTTIL
53The first Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica in Jordan
 GRAHAM TEBB AND NASHAT HAMIDAN
55Biometric variation in three migratory Accipiter species at Eilat, Israel
 REUVEN YOSEF, JAN LONTKOWSKI, TADEUSZ STAWARCZYK AND PETER FEHERVARI
58First record of Green Warbler Phylloscopus nitidus in western Saudi Arabia
 S. OSTROWSKI AND E. GUINARD
60An unusual Long-legged Buzzard Buteo rufinus at Eilat, Israel
 REUVEN YOSEF, WILLIAM S. CLARK AND STEVE HOFFMAN
63First ringing record of Pied Stonechat Saxicola caprata in the Western Palearctic, at Eilat, Israel
 REUVEN YOSEF AND MARTIN RYDBERG-HEDAEN
65The first Red-knobbed Coots Fulica cristata in Oman and the Middle East
 JØRN R. GUSTAD AND KOLBJØRN SCHJØLBERG
68PROFILE
 Keith Betton DAWN BALMER
69REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE
  
76AROUND THE REGION
 Compiled by DAWN BALMER AND KEITH BETTON
Editor:Guy M. Kirwan
Features EditorSituation Vacant
Assistant EditorSituation Vacant
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