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 (2) Autumn 1999
Crab Plover Dromas ardeola, taken by Hanne & Jens Eriksen at Barr Al Hikman, Oman.
| 114 | OSME NEWS |
| 115 | NEW AND INFORMATION |
| 118 | REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION |
| 119 | PROFILE Colin Richardson |
| DEREK HARVEY | |
| 121 | PHOTOSPOT Cyprus Pied Wheatear & Cyprus Warbler |
| PETERE FLINT | |
| 124 | Notes on Eastern Pied Wheatear Oenanthe picata and Hume’s Wheatear Oenanthe alboniger, based on observations in eastern Arabia |
| COLIN RICHARDSON | |
| 128 | Akamas, Cyprus: migrants and endemics |
| OWEN ROBERTS | |
| 132 | An updated checklist of the birds of Lebanon |
| GHASSAN RAMADAN-JARADI AND MONA RAMADAN-JARADI | |
| 171 | An estimation of the nesting success in a Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis undulata macqueenii population in Kazakhstan |
| O. COMBREAU AND F. LAUNAY | |
| 176 | Cory’s Shearwater Calonectris diomedea off northern Cyprus in autumn 1998 |
| PETER FLINT | |
| 177 | Clamorous Reed Warbler Acrocephalus stentoreus apparently predating nest of Booted Warbler Hippolais caligata in the United Arab Emirates |
| PETER CASTELL | |
| 178 | The first records of Yellow Bittern Ixobrychus sinensis in Oman and Arabia |
| HANNE AND JENS ERIKSEN | |
| 180 | The first Little Tern in Yemen |
| PHIL HANSBRO AND DAVE SARGEANT | |
| 180 | The status of Pin-tailed Sandgrouse Pterocles alchata in Golestan Provence, Iran |
| RAMEZANALI GHAEMI | |
| 181 | The first Red-billed Oxpecker in Yemen and the Middle East |
| PHIL HANSBRO AND DAVE SARGEANT | |
| 183 | REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE |
| 183 | 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 |