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 23 (2) Autumn 2001
Thick-billed Lark Ramphocoris clotbey taken by Hadoram Shirihai in the southern Negev, Israel, April 1999.
| 82 | OSME NEWS |
| 85 | NEWS AND INFORMATION |
| compiled by DEREK MOORE AND GUY M. KIRWAN | |
| 89 | REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION |
| 90 | Migration at Chokpak, Kazakhstan |
| E. I. GAVRILOV AND A. E. GAVRILOV | |
| 101 | PHOTOSPOT Armash Fishponds |
| SIMON BUSUTTIL AND VASIL ANANIAN | |
| 104 | PROFILE Richard Porter |
| SIMON ASPINALL | |
| 106 | Distribution and current status of Great Bustard Otis tarda in the Konya Basin, central Turkey |
| CAMIEL HEUNKS, ECKHART HEUNKS, GUVEN EKEN AND BAHTIYAR KURT | |
| 112 | The occurrence of Great Black-headed Gull Larus ichthyaetus in Cyprus |
| ROBERT FROST AND PETER FLINT | |
| 119 | Affinities of Cyprus Warbler Sylvia melanothorax |
| PETER FLINT | |
| 124 | Autumn routes of migrating raptors and other soaring birds in Lebanon |
| COLIN M. BEALE AND GHASSAN RAMADAN-JARADI | |
| 130 | The discovery of Oriental White-eye Zosterops palpebrosa in Arabia |
| HANNE ERIKSEN, JENS ERIKSEN, SALIM AL-SAADI AND DAVE E. SARGEANT | |
| 134 | The establishment of Bank Mynah Acridotheres ginginianus as a breeding species in Kuwait |
| GEORGE GREGORY AND KHALID AL-NASRALLAH | |
| 139 | Notes on three bird species in Iran |
| BIJAN DARREH-SHOORI, CHRISTOPHE TOURENQ, BAHRAM ZEHZAD, LAURENT TATIN, DAVID TATIN AND BIJAN AZMAYESH | |
| 140 | Apparent predation attempt by Lammergeier Gypaetus barbatus on Black Vulture Aegypius monachus chick in Turkey |
| AKIF AYKURT AND CEM ORKUN KIRAC | |
| 141 | An intrageneric Accipiter hybrid from Eilat, Israel |
| REUVEN YOSEF, ANDREAS J. HELBIG AND WILLIAM S. CLARK | |
| 145 | The first Painted Snipe Rostratula benghalensis in Jordan |
| PETE M. ELLIS AND KEN SHAW | |
| 146 | The first European Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria in Jordan |
| PETE M. ELLIS, KHALDOUN AL OMARI AND ANWAR EL HALAH | |
| 147 | Does Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago breed in Turkey? |
| TIM MARLOW, GUY M. KIRWAN AND BURAK GUNES | |
| 148 | The validity of Monticola saxatilis coloratus Stepanyan, 1964 |
| GUY M. KIRWAN | |
| 149 | A previously unreported, Garrulus-like plumage pattern in Pleske’s Ground Jay Podoces pleskei |
| TIZIANO LONDEI | |
| 152 | REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE |
| 156 | Around the Region |
| Compiled by DAWN BALMER AND KEITH BETTON |
| Editor: | Guy M. Kirwan |
| Features Editor | Derek Harvey |
| Assistant Editor | Ian J. Andrews |
| Editorial Committee | Mikael Blair, Paul Goriup, 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 |