Despite the ongoing global pandemic, 2021 was another very successful year for OSME with continued growth in our conservation work across the region. It was yet another exceptional year for our small grants programmes. In January we...
Since the coronavirus pandemic started back in early 2020 OSME have held several of our meetings online and they have been hugely popular with our members and supporters. The feedback from the online meetings has been overwhelmingly...
Guest blog by Robin Snape A Bird Camp on Cyprus had been discussed and planned since early 2020 in collaboration with OSME Youth Development Officer, Tomas Axén Haraldsson. Due to the prolonged pandemic, it has been postponed...
Guest blog by Louis Junior Saad Despite all international birdwatchers cancelling their trips due to Covid and nationwide circumstances, the SPNL Raptor Count Lebanon, was held again at Hammana on Mount Lebanon overlooking the city of Beirut...
The Trevor Poyser Species Conservation Fund is now open for applications until the 1st December 2021. The fund supports research projects that lead to clear conservation benefits for a Globally Threatened species that occurs within the OSME...
Guest blog by Szabolcs Nagy Although the OSME region is dominated by deserts and dry land, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Black and Caspian Sea, the Gulf, the Arabian and the Red Sea and the inland wetlands are...
A guest blog by Ali Yahya Ali Mahrous and Salem Abdullah Ali Mohammed Due to the long isolation of the Socotra islands from other regions in the world wonderful wildlife, unique biodiversity and amazing marine life have...
Guest blog by Gregory Askew Prior to November 2017, when I first moved to Saudi Arabia, only six observations of Asir Magpie Pica asirensis, a range-restricted corvid species found in the highlands of southwest Saudi, had been...
Guest blog by Laith Jawad with support from Mudhafar Salim and Salwan Abed This guest blog is by Laith Jawad, editor of a new book: “Southern Iraq’s Marshes Their Environment and Conservation”, published by Springer, Switzerland in...
Travel fellowship and a stipend for a licensed ringer at northeastern Turkey’s Aras River Ornithological Research Station, home to 302 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...
We will be holding this digitally via Zoom on Saturday June the 19th2021 from 14.00 BST (13.00 GMT) for a maximum of an hour. Copies of the draft minutes of the 42nd AGM and the Draft Trustee...
We will again be holding our Summer Meeting online and it is free to attend and open to all. The full programme is now available here The meeting will be held using Zoom, and please register as...
Once again OSME is teaming up with the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) to repeat the successful count of migrating soaring birds in autumn 2019 made with the help of BirdLife Sweden and...
The East African-Eurasian flyway represents one of the most important routes for migratory soaring birds in the world. Each spring and autumn, 37 species of migratory soaring birds (MSBs) routinely navigate this flyway, with over a million...
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Global Birdfair: 14th - 16th July 2023
AGM (online): 18th November 2023
Winter Meeting (online): 9th December 2023
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