Sandgrouse 21 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 21 (1) Spring 1999

Sandgrouse Cover 21 (1)

Small Skylark Alauda gulgula, taken by Leo J.R. Boon at Eilat, Israel.

2OSME NEWS
  
2NEWS AND INFORMATION
  
4REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
  
5PHOTOSPOT Lichtenstein’s Sandgrouse
 HADORAM SHIRIHAI, REUVEN YOSEF, PAUL DOHERTY & DAN ALON
9PROFILE Hadoram Shirihai
 GUY M. KIRWAN & RICHARD PORTER
10Jordan Bird Report 1995-97
 IAN J. ANDREWS, FARES KHOURY & HADORAM SHIRIHAI
36A checklist of the birds of Israel and Jordan
 HADORAM SHIRIHAI IAN J. ANDREWS, GUY M. KIRWAN & PETER DAVIDSON
45Fifty species new to Israel, 1979-1998: their discovery and documentation, with tips on identification
 HADORAM SHIRIHAI
106REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE
  
108AROUND 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