Happy birthday BBRC from your friends in the Middle East
Happy birthday BBRC from your friends in the Middle East Sixty years ago, in 1959, the British Birds Rarities Committee produced its […]
OSME Blogs
The OSME Summer meeting and 41st AGM
The OSME Summer Meeting and 41st AGM will be held at BTO Headquarters, Thetford, Norfolk on Saturday 29th June. Doors
We Invite You to Join the Sarımazı Raptor Count
Turkey is home to one of the largest breeding populations of Egyptian Vultures in the world! An estimated 2000 pairs
Bird Camp Lebanon 2019 5-8 April
After developing the Bird Camp concept at Besh Barmag in Azerbaijan during 2016-2017 we did one in Lebanon in October 2018. Bringing
The wintering population of Egyptian Vultures in Ethiopia
Guest Blog by Volen Arkumarev During the second half of January 2019 a team from BSPB, RSPB, BirdLife Africa, EWNHS, SCF, NCF
OSME Region List Update 4.4 (Available at https://osme.org/orl)
This update incorporates, inter alia, intriguing conclusions from several heavyweight papers on: The Common/Long-legged/Upland/Mountain Buzzard superspecies. Divergence between Middle Spotted Woodpecker
I LOVE NATURE 7
Guest blog by Leyla Muslim Hi. My name is Leyla. I live in the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku. Since 2010 I am
Racing to help declining Vultures
Champions of the Flyway is in its fifth year and the next Flyway Bird Race will be taking place, one again,
OSME Chairman’s report on 2018, and the year ahead
The year 2018 was a hugely significant one for OSME as we celebrated our 50th anniversary. In 1968, The Ornithological
Azerbaijan and the Besh Barmag project
Guest blog from Gunay Behramzade Hello my name is Gunay and I’m an ecologist. Since my childhood I have a great passion
The Arabic App of Birds of the Middle East
A key focus for OSME over the last year has been the production of a smartphone App version of the
Fighting illegal bird killing
A guest blog by Lloyd Scott The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) is a European bird protection NGO based in
Martin Woodcock’s book auction
Martin Woodcock’s book collection is being auctioned by Dominic Winter Auctioneers on the 12th December. The collection includes scarce titles
The 19th Turkey Bird Conference
The 19th Turkey Bird Conference The 19th Turkey Bird Conference will take place on the 17th -22nd May 2019, in Mersin,