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 26 (2) Autumn 2004
Little Green Bee-eater Merops orientalis taken by Hadoram Shirihai at Eilat, Israel, in spring 2002
| 82 | OSME NEWS |
| 83 | REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION |
| 84 | NEWS AND INFORMATION |
| compiled by GUY M. KIRWAN | |
| 87 | A checklist of bird species held in seven important collections in Tehran |
| A. KHALEGHIZADEH | |
| 94 | The Syrian Wetland Expedition 2004: a summar |
| D. MURDOCH, I. ANDREWS AND R. HOFLAND | |
| 105 | The taxonomic position of the Afghan Scrub Sparrow Passer (moabiticus) yati |
| G. M. KIRWAN | |
| 112 | An ornithological study of the Azerbaijani Caspian coast, islands and regions of oil production |
| E. SULTANOV | |
| 127 | Breeding habitat of the Pale Rock Sparrow Carpospiza brachydactyla in the Mount Lebanon range |
| C. C. KNIGHT AND C. M. BEALE | |
| 132 | Biometric and plumage variation in African Collared Dove Streptopelia roseogrisea and Collared Dove S. decaocto at Eilat, Israel |
| R. YOSEPH, M. RYDBERG-HEDAEN, N. ZELNOVA AND K. MEYROM | |
| 137 | The first See-see Partridge Ammoperdix griseogularis in Armenia |
| V. ANANIAN | |
| 139 | Trumpeter Finches Bucanetes githagineus in Kuwait: feeding juveniles or courtship-feeding? |
| P. J. COWAN, C. W. PILCHER AND S. T. SPENCERP. J. COWAN, C. W. PILCHER AND S. T. SPENCER | |
| 140 | Notes on the behaviour of the Golden-winged Grosbeak Rhynchostruthus socotranus |
| K. GEDEON AND V. NEUMANN | |
| 141 | First confirmed breeding record of Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler Locustella certhiola in Kyrgyzstan |
| T. ROTH AND G. JALILOVA | |
| 143 | A mystery Phylloscopus warbler in Kuwait |
| N. CLEERE, D. KELLY AND C. W. T. PILCHER | |
| 146 | The first Cape Gannet Sula capensis in Oman and the Middle East |
| H. ERIKSEN | |
| 148 | An unusual Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita in the western Tien Shan, Kazakhstan |
| E. I. GAVRILOV, A. E. GAVRILOV AND A. V. KOVOLENKO | |
| 149 | Some corrections to, and comments on, recent papers on Iranian bird distributions |
| K. KRATOCHWILL AND G. M. KIRWAN | |
| 151 | The first Black Bush Robins Cercotrichus podobe in Jordan – a prelude to colonisation? |
| A. GRIEVE, F. KHOURY AND K. NASSER | |
| 153 | The first Purple Gallinule Porphyrio porphyrio in Saudi Arabia |
| B. S. MEADOWS | |
| 154 | The first Bewick’s Swan Cygnus columbianus in eastern Saudi Arabia |
| B. S. MEADOWS AND G. MUSALAME | |
| 155 | Notes on three rare raptors in the Anzali wetlands, Iran |
| A. KHALEGHIZADEH | |
| 156 | PROFILE Phillip Andrew Lassey |
| D. I. M. WALLACE | |
| 157 | REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE |
| 160 | AROUND THE REGION |
| Compiled by DAWN BALMER AND KEITH BETTON |
| Editor: | Guy M. Kirwan & Michael Blair |
| Features Editor | Situation Vacant |
| Assistant Editor | Dawn Balmer |
| Editorial Committee | 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 |