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 28 (1) Spring 2006
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EDITORIAL
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OSME NEWS
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NEWS AND INFORMATION
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Comments on two subspecies of passerine birds recently described from Turkey, Eremophila alpestris kumerloevei and Pyrrhula pyrrhula paphlagoniae, with remarks on geographical variation in related forms of Bullfinch from the Balkans and Caucasus
GUY M. KIRWAN
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Observations on the breeding birds of the Gaza Strip, Palestine
DR M. AL-SAFADI
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Bird censusing and monitoring on Cyprus
DEREK POMEROY & FRANK WALSH
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Colonisation of the Middle East by the invasive Common Myna Acridotheres tristis L., with special reference to Israel
