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 43 (2) Autumn 2021
Cover photo: A breeding colony of Lesser-crested Terns Thalasseus bengalensis, with single Greater Crested Tern Thalasseus bergii, Egyptian Red Sea Islands. © Mohamed Habib. This issue contains two articles about the status of breeding gulls and terns in Egypt.
| 194 | Breeding colonies of Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica and Little Tern Sternula albifrons on Lake Nasser, Egypt. |
| | Jens Hering, Stefan Fischer, Olaf Geiter, Jonas Wobker, Stefan Siegel, Lothar Spath, Herbert Grimm & Mohamed Habib |
| 216 | Results of surveys of breeding seabirds on Red Sea islands, Egypt, in 2012-2018. |
| | Mohamed Ibrahim Habib |
| 224 | Repeat surveys show a decline in breeding Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius numbers in central Kazakhstan. |
| | Ruslan Urazaliyev, Dennis Urazaliyev, Timur Iskakov & Rob D Sheldon |
| 230 | The international dimension of illegal bird hunting in Lebanon. |
| | André F Raine, Axel Hirschfeld, Geraldine M Attard, Lloyd Scott, Ghassan Ramadan-Jaradi, Assad Serhal & Scott Driskill |
| 241 | Opportunistic in-flight foraging behaviour of Black Kites Milvus migrans during spring migration through the Batumi bottleneck, Georgia. |
| | Tohar Tal, Diego Jansen & Wouter MG Vansteelant |
| 247 | Waterhole visitation patterns of two potential avian competitors, Chukar Alectoris chukar and Rock Dove Columba livia, and a mammalian predator, the Caracal Caracal caracal, in Jordan. |
| | Omar Attum, Madison Reff & Malik Al Awaji |
| 253 | Morphology and song suggest Arabian Prunella fagani and Radde’s Accentors P. ocularis are conspecific. |
| | Guy M Kirwan, Nigel J Collar & Peter Boesman |
| 263 | Comments on two Yemen endemic subspecies: Alectoris melanocephala guichardi R. Meinertzhagen, 1951, and Pterocles lichtensteinii ingramsi Bates & Kinnear, 1937. |
| | Guy M Kirwan |
| 271 | The status of the Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio in Afghanistan. |
| | Stephane Ostrowski, Ali Madad Rajabi & Stuart Pimm |
| 277 | Summer diet of Long-Eared Owl Asio otus in Aammiq wetland, Western Beqaa, Lebanon. |
| | Mounir R Abi-Said, Mohammad Taha Al Masri & Zuhair S Amr |
| 281 | Hunting of Little Bustards Tetrax tetrax in Azerbaijan: the global conservation perspective. |
| | Nigel J Collar & Mimi Kessler |
| 286 | The first breeding record of Pallid Scops Owl Otus brucei in Jordan. |
| | Fares Khoury, Mohammed Alshamlih & Ahmad Dheib |
| 289 | First record of Hooded Wheatear Oenanthe monacha in Lebanon and other interesting sightings. |
| | Ghassan Ramadan-Jaradi, Michel Sawan, Fouad Itani & Samer Azar |
| 293 | Spur-Winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus, a new species for Azerbaijan and the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. |
| | Arzu Mammadov, Elchin Sultanov, Sureyya Isfendiyaroğlu & Huseyn Resulzade |
| 296 | From the Rarities Committees. |
| | Ian Harrison (Compiler) |
| 306 | Obituary: Oleg Vyacheslavovich Belyalov (1960–2020). |
| | Victoria Kovshar |
| 308 | Obituary: David John Fisher (1954–2021). |
| | Steve Rooke |
| 309 | Obituary: Askar Isabekov (1967–2021). |
| Gennadiy Dyakin | |
| 311 | Obituary: Nick P Williams (1959–2021). |
| Ibrahim Khader | |
| 312 | Around the Region. |
| Ian Harrison (Compiler) |