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 (2) Autumn 1998
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Male Grey Hypocolius Hypocolius ampelinus, taken by Dr Mike Hill in Bahrain.
82 | OSME NEWS |
84 | NEWS AND INFORMATION |
86 | REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION |
87 | Habitat selection by Syrian Serin Serinus syriacus in south-west Jordan |
FARES KHOURY | |
94 | Kibbutz Lotan-gem of the Arava valley, Israel |
JAMES SMITH | |
102 | PROFILE Adnan Budieri |
DEREK HARVEY | |
105 | PHOTOSPOT Hume’s Tawny Owl |
ROY E. WRANES | |
108 | Comments on the limits of the Western Palearctic in Iran and the Arabian Peninsula |
R. P. MARTINS AND ERIK HIRSCHFELD | |
135 | The birds of semi-desert areas of central Iraq |
KHALID Y. AL-DABBAGH | |
142 | Seawatching at Ras Beirut, Lebanon in spring 1997 |
SIMON BUSUTIL AND DAVE FLUMM | |
143 | Migrant raptors at Krak des Chevaliers, Syria |
M. J. AND E. A. EVERETT | |
144 | A February record of Demoiselle Crane Anthropoides virgo in south Turkey |
EDWIN W. A. M. VAASEN | |
145 | The first Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea in Yemen and the Middle East |
DAVID B. STANTON | |
146 | Bar-tailed Desert Lark Ammomanes cincturus and Black-crowned Finch Lark Eremopterix nigriceps breeding in Kuwait |
P. J. COWAN AND D. L. NEWMAN | |
147 | The first Semi-collared Flycatcher records Ficedula semitorquata in Lebanon |
SIMON BUSUTTIL AND DAVE FLUMM | |
150 | REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE |
157 | AROUND THE REGION |
GUY M. KIRWAN |
Editor: | Guy M. Kirwan |
Features Editor | Derek Harvey |
Assistant Editor | Ian J. Andrews |
Editorial Committee | Mikael Blair, Paul Goriup, Ben Hoare, Mike Jennings, Rodney Martins, Peter L. Meininger & Dr Stephen Newton |
Photographic Editor | Paul Doherty |
Design & Production | Harry I. Scott |
Identification Consultants | C. G. Bradshaw, Arnoud B. den Berg & Steve Madge |