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 19 (2) Autumn 1997
White-collared Kingfisher Halcyon chloris, taken by Dave Robinson
| 82 | OSME NEWS |
| 84 | NEWS AND INFORMATION |
| 87 | REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION |
| 88 | Observations of Pleske’s Ground Jay Podoces pleskei in central Iran |
| DR AKBAR HAMEDANIAN | |
| 92 | Al Mahwit: a rich Yemen avifauna |
| DAVID STANTON | |
| 96 | PROFILE Sherif M. Baha El Din |
| ANDREW GRIEVE | |
| 99 | PHOTOSPOT Painted Snipe |
| GUY M. KIRWAN | |
| 102 | A Red Data List for the birds of the United Arab Emirates |
| RICHARD HORNBY AND SIMON ASPINALL | |
| 111 | Which large gulls from the Larus fuscus–cachinnans–argentatus complex of (sub)species occur in Bahrain? |
| PIERRE YÉSOU AND ERIK HIRSCHFELD | |
| 122 | Notes on some breeding birds in Lebanon |
| GHASSAN RAMADAN-JARADI AND MONA RAMADAN-JARADI | |
| 1326 | A baseline survey of the Black Vulture Aegypius monachus in western Turkey |
| BORJA HEREDIA, STEPHEN J. PARR AND MURAT YARAR | |
| 133 | A review of claimed records of Lesser Sand Plover Charadrius mongolus from Cyprus and Turkey |
| PETER R. FLINT, PETER F. STEWART AND GUY M. KIRWAN | |
| 140 | Striated Heron Butorides striatus breeding in the Egyptian Nile Valley |
| KLAAS-DOUWE DIJKSTRA | |
| 140 | The first Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca in Yemen |
| DR OMAR AL-SAGHIER AND R. F. PORTER | |
| 141 | The first African Spoonbill Platalea alba in Yemen |
| DR OMAR AL-SAGHIER AND R. F. PORTER | |
| 142 | The first White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons in Yemen |
| DR OMAR AL-SAGHIER, R. F. PORTERAND D. B. STANTON | |
| 142 | The first Cotton Teal Nettapus coromandelianus in Jordan |
| RICHARD BASHFORD | |
| 143 | The first Crested Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus in Oman |
| JENS ERIKSEN | |
| 144 | Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus breeding in central Turkey |
| BERNARD PLEASANCE | |
| 145 | Corncrake Crex crex breeding in north-east Turkey |
| IAN A. GREEN | |
| 146 | The first White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis in Turkey and the Middle East |
| SEAN BROWNE | |
| 147 | Regular wintering by Scops Owl Otus scops in Turkey, at Havran Delta |
| GÜVEN EKEN | |
| 148 | Long-eared Owl Asio otus status in Syria |
| THE EDITORS | |
| 148 | Diet of Long-eared Owls Asio otus wintering in the Khula valley, Israel |
| REUVEN YOSEF | |
| 149 | The first Hoopoe Lark Alaemon alaudipes in Turkey |
| NAPIER SHELTON | |
| 150 | The first Grasshopper Warbler Locustella naevia in Yemen |
| DR OMAR AL-SAGHIER AND R. F. PORTER | |
| 152 | REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE |
| 156 | AROUND THE REGION |
| P. DAVIDSON AND G. M. KIRWAN |
| Editor: | Guy M. Kirwan |
| Features Editor | Derek Harvey |
| Assistant Editor | Ian J. Andrews |
| Editorial Committee | Duncan J. Brooks, Mike Evans, Ben Hoare, Mike Jennings, Rodney Martins & Dr Stephen Newton |
| Photographic Editor | Paul Doherty |
| Design & Production | Harry I. Scott |
| Identification Consultants | C. G. Bradshaw, Arnoud B. den Berg & Steve Madge |