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) |