Sandgrouse 20 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 20 (1) Spring 1998

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Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus, taken by Hanne & Jens Eriksen at Sohar, Oman

2OSME NEWS
  
3NEWS AND INFORMATION
  
7REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
  
8Pale Rock Sparrow Carpospiza brachydactyla a little known Middle Eastern bird
 GUY M. KIRWAN
13Birding in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon
 CHRIS AND ALISON WALLEY
17PROFILE Mike Jennings
 DEREK HARVEY
18PHOTOSPOT Arabian and Radde’s Accentor
 RODNEY P. MARTINS
22The breeding birds of the Sharra Highland Plateau, Jordan
 FARES KHOURY
30The effects of disturbance on migrant waders at Eilat, Israel
 R. L. GLASER, K. HORSEPOOL, N. SIMHAI AND R. YOSEF
36Video monitoring observations of a Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis undulata nest in Mahazat as-Sayd Reserve, central Saudi Arabia
 RICHARD F. MALONEY
40Selected records from Cheikh Zennad, a coastal wetland in north-east Lebanon
 THIERRY BARA
46The first Mute Swan Cygnus olor and Radde’s Accentor Prunella ocularis in Jordan
 ERIK HANSSON, ANDERS MAGNUSSON AND PER ERIKSSON
47Breeding survey of White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala on the Central Plateau, Turkey
 KATHERINE ROBINSON, LUCY HOLT, YVONNE BUCKLEY, TIM PULLEN, KEREM BOYLA AND OKAN CAN
48The first Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris in Yemen
 AAAT SCHAFTENAAR
49The first breeding record of Swift Tern Sterna bergii in Egypt
 PETER CASTELL
52Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus breeding in the Nile Delta, Egypt
 PETER L. MEININGER AND A. (JANUS) VERKERK
53Notes on the breeding and cooling behaviour of Hoopoe Lark in central Saudi Arabia
 MOHAMMED SHOBRAK
55The first Banded Martin Riparia cincta in Saudi Arabia
 C. M. SAUNDERS AND G. G. WEBBO
56Colour polymorphism in Eleonora’s Falcon Falco eleonorae
 D. RISTOW, C. WINK, M. WINK AND W. SCHARLAU
66The birds of some of Yemen’s Red Sea islands
 R. F. PORTER AND DR OMAR AL-SAGHIER
68REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE
  
76AROUND THE REGION
 P. DAVIDSON AND G. M. KIRWAN
Editor:Guy M. Kirwan
Features EditorDerek Harvey
Assistant EditorIan J. Andrews
Editorial CommitteeMikael Blair, Duncan J. Brooks, Mike Jennings, Rodney Martins & Dr Stephen Newton
Photographic EditorPaul Doherty
Design & ProductionHarry I. Scott
Identification ConsultantsC. G. Bradshaw,Arnoud B. den Berg & Steve Madge