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 29 (1) Spring 2007
Syrian Serin Serinus syriacus May 2006, Syria © Aurélien Audevard
| 2 | EDITORIAL |
| 2 | OSME NEWS |
| 6 | NEWS AND INFORMATION |
| 9 | AROUND THE REGION |
| Compiled by DAWN BALMER AND KEITH BETTON | |
| 17 | Waterbirds in microhabitats of Selke and Espand, in the Anzali Wetlands, Iran. |
| ABOLGHASHEM KHALEGHIZADEH | |
| 35 | The Birds of the Latian Dam and Lashgarak Area, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran – June 1972 to February 1976. |
| DEREK A. SCOTT | |
| 53 | Avifaunal surveys of the Latian Dam and Lashgarak Area, an important IBA for migrants in Iran. |
| ABOLGHASHEM KHALEGHIZADEH & MOHAMMAD E SEHHATISABET | |
| 70 | Preference of the White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala for wastewater reservoirs in the Judean Plain, Israel. |
| EZRA HADAD & CHAIM MOYAL | |
| 79 | Cyprus – the autumn 2005 raptor migration at the southeast peninsula (terminating at Cape Grec). |
| TOBIAS ROTH & ANDREA CORSO | |
| 94 | Notes on the European Bee-eater Merops apiaster in northern Iran. |
| ABOLGHASHEM KHALEGHIZADEH | |
| 94 | An observation of Brown Fish Owl Ketupa zeylonensis in Turkey. |
| OSMAN YONTEM | |
| 95 | Days in Iraq with the Basra Reed Warbler Acrocephalus griseldis |
| OMAR FADHEL | |
| 97 | PHOTOSPOT: Sociable Lapwing (Vanellus gregarious) in Syria. |
| DAVID MURDOCH & MIKE BLAIR | |
| 98 | Bird sites of the OSME region: Mheimideh – jewel on the Euphrates. |
| DAVID MURDOCH | |
| 102 | Observation of Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus in Armenia. |
| ANDRAS SCHMIDT | |
| 103 | The first record of Eleonora’s Falcon Falco eleonorae in Armenia. |
| VASIL ANANIAN, BOSSE CARLSSON & JAN-MICHAEL BREDIER | |
| 105 | Raptor migration at Kazbegi, Georgia. |
| GEOFF & HILARY WELCH | |
| 107 | First record of Carrion Crow Corvus corone for Lebanon |
| RICHARD PRIOR | |
| 107 | The first Siberian Accentor Prunella ocularis & Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus in Turkey |
| SONER BEKIR | |
| 108 | Plumbeous Water Redstart Rhyacornis fuliginosus – a new breeding species for Central Asia |
| RAFFAEL AYE | |
| 111 | LETTER TO THE EDITOR – |
| SIMON ASPINALL & PETER HELLYER | |
| 112 | REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE |
| Editor: | Michael Blair OSME Editor |
| Features Editor | Situation Vacant |
| Assistant Editor | Situation Vacant |
| Editorial Committee | Paul Goriup, Mike Jennings, Simon Aspinall, Dr Stephen Newton |
| Photographic Editor | Paul Doherty |
| Design & Production | Harry I. Scott |
| Identification Consultants | C. G. Bradshaw,Arnoud B. den Berg & Steve Madge |