Raising awareness of Socotra’s Egyptian Vultures and unique wildlife
A guest blog from Ali Yahya A. Mahroos on behalf of the Socotra UNE-GEF team. Socotra, Yemen.
Globally important number of Steppe Eagles discovered in Saudi Arabia
Guest blog by Mischa Keijmel This article is written following the sighting of large aggregations of Steppe Eagles Aquila nipalensis at dump sites north-west of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The area was suspected to be important because a...
Vulture News from the Middle East
The following short vulture updates from across the Middle East are reproduced with the permission of the IUCN Vulture Specialist Group. They are taken from the Vulture Specialist Group newsletter (issue 11). If you are interested in...
Sandgrouse now available as a Digital Edition
We’re delighted that after a period of significant trials we can now offer a digital edition of Sandgrouse free to all our members. It was enthusiastically welcomed at its Rutland Birdfair launch with many members requesting access....
A lady birder in Egypt
Guest blog by Basma Sheta I am Basma Sheta, from Damietta on the north coast of Egypt. I have a PhD in Zoology, specializing in bird ecology. The study of birds was one of the most beautiful...
Volunteering In Lebanon
A guest blog by Valentine Moser from Switzerland This autumn I spent two weeks volunteering in Lebanon in support of the project RaptorCountLebanon2019. Watching from our viewing platform overlooking Beirut and the Mediterranean Sea was a great experience! I...
OSME is delighted to introduce the Trevor Poyser Species Conservation Fund
Trevor Poyser was a giant of ornithological publishing, joint founder of the renowned publishers T & AD Poyser famous for their ground-breaking books, particularly the Species Monograph series. Trevor was also a keen supporter of OSME, as...
Lebanon Bird Camp, autumn 2019 – some news from the field
After the successful weekend Bird Camps in Lebanon in October 2018 and April 2019 we decided to scale up the project to a 25 day long raptor count. Inspired by such counts at Batumi, Besh Barmag and...
I Love Nature 8
Guest blog by Ikram Quttaineh from Palestine I am a 32-year-old Palestinian woman, holder of a master degree in rural sustainable development. Like many other Palestinians, I got to know more and more about birds by watching...
Autumn raptor migration kicks off – and so do their protectors!
This autumn migration 2019 through the OSME region will be exciting to follow. The raptors, storks and other birds making their perilous journey from their breeding grounds in Eurasia across the killing fields in the Middle East...
The 11th European Bird Curators’ meeting
Photo: the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History The 11th European Bird Curators’ meeting (EBC) will be held between the 24th and the 26th of September, 2019. It will be hosted by the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History...
The scale of illegal bird killing in the Middle East revealed for the first time
As many of you will know OSME have been working with BirdLife International, and with the help of many experts within the region, to undertake a review of the illegal killing of birds in the Arabian Peninsula,...
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERING COUNTERS & TRAINERS FOR RAPTOR MIGRATION COUNT
RAPTOR MIGRATION COUNT LEBANON SEPTEMBER 2019 Lebanon is situated straight in the eastern Mediterranean flyway and sees the annual migration of hundreds of thousands of raptors, storks and other soaring birds. Very few studies have been done to document this...
BIRD RINGING FELLOWSHIP IN NORTHEASTERN TURKEY
Travel fellowships for licensed ringers at northeastern Turkey’s Aras River Ornithological Research Station, home to 292 bird species Eastern Turkey Bird Monitoring Project run by the University of Utah and KuzeyDoga Society will provide a fellowship to a licensed bird ringer with Palearctic experience between August 15...
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