Sandgrouse 34 2

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 34 (2) Autumn 2012

Cover photo: Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, April 2008. © AJ Drummond-Hill

113	Contents.
114	A proposed Important Bird Area and Internationally Important Wetland: Meyghan wetland, west-central Iran.
	Mohammad Tohidifar & Mohammad Kaboli
127	Nesting parameters of Turtle Doves Streptopelia turtur arenicola breeding in Bahrain.
	Brendan Kavanagh & Abdulla Al Kaabi
132	Roosting behaviour of a Hume’s Warbler Phylloscopus humei in Oman.
	Kolbjørn Schjølberg
135	First record of Long-tailed Skua Stercorarius longicaudus in Iraq.
	R Williams
137	Akpetky lakes, Sarykamysh lake, Ayakaghytma lake, and their desert surrounds: three new Important Bird Areas in Uzbekistan.
	Anna Ten, Roman Kashkarov, Gulara Matekova, Ilia Zholdasova & Mukhtor Turaev
148	Great Bustard Otis tarda in Turkey: adult female with three chicks at forest edge in Kars province.
	Esra Per, M Ufuk Özbek, M Erkan Uzunhisarcikli & Bilgehan Bilgili
151	Masked Shrike Lanius nubicus consumes a Graceful Warbler Prinia gracilis at migration stopover site in southern Israel.
	Kamen P Ruskov
152	Birding Sites of the OSME Region 8—The birds of the lower Syrian Euphrates.
	DA Murdoch & AH Aidek
177	From the Rarities Committees.
178	Letter to the Editor: Bird hunting in Lebanon.
183	OSME News.
	Geoff Welch
185	News & Information.
	Dawn Balmer (compiler)
189	Around the Region.
	Ian Harrison & Andrew Grieve (compilers)

Editor:	Dr Peter Cowan OSME Editor, Department of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, University of Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman
Editorial Advisors	Vasil Ananian, Paul Goriup, Mike Jennings, Dr Fares Khoury, Guy Kirwan, Dr Stephen Newton, Arend Wassink
Photographic Editor	Paul Doherty
Reviews Editor	Guy Kirwan
Identification Consultants	Arnoud van den Berg, Chris Bradshaw, Andrew Lassey, Richard Porter