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 47 (2) Autumn 2025
Cover photo: Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius, Kazakhstan, June 2009.
© Paul F Donald.
| 290 | Avifauna of Imam Turki bin Abdullah Royal Nature Reserve, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. |
| Oscar Campbell, Ibrahim Al Hasani, Tareq Qaneer, Yehya KH Shehadeh, Ahmed Elgharib, Ali El Mubarak, Bilal Kabeer, Pranay Hirlekar & Bonnie John Corneta | |
| 320 | Avifauna of King Abdulaziz Royal Reserve, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. |
| Colleen Lindberg, Jerome Y Gaugris, Ryan Van Huyssteen, Karsten Drescher, Abdulrahman S Alrefae, Abdullah M Alowaifeer, Abdelwahab Chedad, Melissa Petford & Lukas Niemand | |
| 335 | Breeding biology of Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis in eastern Kalmykia assessed using camera traps. |
| Anton Abushin | |
| 348 | Nesting ecology and territory distribution of Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos in Oman. |
| Rabab Al Lawati, Maïa Sarrouf Willson, Michael McGrady & Malcolm Ac Nicoll | |
| 357 | Breeding and conservation of Great White Pelicans Pelecanus onocrotalus in Armenia. |
| Berta Martirosyan & Karen Aghababyan | |
| 363 | Evidence of breeding by Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus vociferus in the AlUla region, north-western Saudi Arabia. |
| Paulo Alves, Ana P Coelho, João Falé, Bruno H Martins, Laszlo Patko, Benjamin P Y-H Lee, Nawaf Al Johani, José C Brito & Jaime Sousa | |
| 367 | New records and changes in the status of birds in Lebanon. |
| Michel Sawan & Fouad Itani | |
| 375 | First documented record of Paddyfield Warbler Acrocephalus agricola from Saudi Arabia. |
| Oscar Campbell | |
| 382 | Entanglement hazards of migratory birds in Desert Nettle Forsskaolea tenacissima. |
| Naama Ben-Ami & Reuven Yosef | |
| 384 | The second record of Sykes’s Warbler Iduna rama for Azerbaijan and notes on the first record. |
| Mats Rellmar | |
| 388 | Possible loss of Syrian Serin Serinus syriacus from Egypt. |
| Watter Albahry | |
| 391 | White-headed’ Western Yellow Wagtails Motacilla flava leucocephala in Azerbaijan. |
| Zulfu Farajli & Ramil Hasanov | |
| 395 | Black-headed Weavers Ploceus melanocephalus in Bahrain. |
| Ahmed S Khamis | |
| 397 | First record of Bewick’s Swan Cygnus (columbianus) bewickii in Egypt. |
| Ahmed Mansour | |
| 399 | First record of Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus in Egypt. |
| Basem Rabia & Mohamed Khalid | |
| 403 | Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus breeding in Egypt after 122 years. |
| Basem Rabia & Mahmoud Elshamy | |
| 408 | From the Rarities Committees. |
| Ian Harrison (Compiler) | |
| 418 | OSME Regional Round-up |
| Simon Tull (Compiler) | |
| 433 | Letter from the OSME Chairman. |
| Rob Sheldon (Osme Chair) | |
| 436 | Around the Region |
| Ian Harrison, Jane Stylianou & Simon Tull (Compilers) |
| Editor | Dr Paul Donald Sandgrouse editor. |
| Editorial Board | AbdulRahman Al-Sirhan (Kuwait), Dr Raffael Ayé (Switzerland), Jem Babbington (Saudi Arabia, photo consultant) Arnoud van den Berg (Netherlands), Michael Blair (UK), Chris Bradshaw (UK), Dr Gary Brown (Germany), Oscar Campbell (UAE), Peter Castell (UK), Pia Fetting (Germany), Peter Flint (UK), Dr Robert Flood (UK), Paul Goriup (UK), Jens Hering (Germany), Mike Jennings (UK), Dr Abolghasem Khaleghizadeh (Iran), Dr Fares Khoury (Jordan), Dr Alan Knox (UK), Andrew Lassey (UK), Dr Mike McGrady (Austria), Dr Stephen Newton (Ireland), Yoav Perlman (Israel), Aasheesh Pittie (India), Richard Porter (UK), Hana Ahmed Raza (Iraq), Colin Richardson (Cyprus), Anna Sandor (Hungary), Dr Manuel Schweizer (Switzerland), Dr Derek Scott (UK), Dr Robert Sheldon (UK), Dr Ruth Tingay (UK), Arend Wassink (Netherlands), Geoff Welch (France) |