Sandgrouse 25 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 25 (1) Spring 2003

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Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus taken by Hadoram Shirihai at Gamla Gorge Nature Reserve, Israel, autumn 2002

2OSME NEWS
  
4NEWS AND INFORMATION
 compiled by GUY M. KIRWAN
8Turkey Bird Report 1997 – 2001
 EDITED BY GUY M. KIRWAN, METEHAN ÖZEN, BAHTIYAR KURT AND R. P. MARTINS
32How much do we know about the Caucasian Black Grouse Tetrao mlokosiewiczi?
 RAMAZ GOKHELASHVILI, KERRY P. REESE AND LEXO GAVASHELISHVILI
41The current breeding status of Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca in Azerbaijan
 ELCHIN SULTANOV AND NIGAR AGAYEVA
49The spatial and tempoal behaviour of a Common Swift
 ULRICH TIGGES
53Observations on birds in Tajikistan, April – May 1997
 DAVID MURDOCH
59Some unusual patterns of bird migration in Uzbekistan
 ELENA KREUZBERG-MUKHINA
63The first Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis in Bulgaria
 DIMITAR N. RAGYOV, LUDMILLA G. POPOVA-WIGHTMAN, KONSTANTIN S. POPOV, SVETLA Y. DALAKCHIEVA, BORIS P. NIKOLOV AND IVAILO P. NIKOLOV
65The first Long-tailed Duck Clangula hymemalis in Armenia
 VASIL ANANIAN AND PETER DE ROUW
67The first records of Grey-headed Gull Larus cirrocephalus in Egypt
 JOHAN ELMBERG AND LOTHAR MÜLLER
69The first Radde’s Accentor Prunella ocularis in Lebanon
 THIERRY BARA
70REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE
  
76AROUND THE REGION
 Compiled by DAWN BALMER AND KEITH BETTON
Editor:Guy M. Kirwan
Features EditorSituation Vacant
Assistant EditorDawn Balmer
Editorial CommitteeMikael Blair, Paul Goriup, 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