Sandgrouse 20 2

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.

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