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 5 1983

| i | Foreword |
| ii | Editorial |
| 1 | The Breeding Birds of the Azraq Oasis and its Desert Surround, Jordan, in the mid-1960s |
| D. I. M. Wallace | |
| 19 | The Migration of Raptors near Suez, Egypt, Autumn 1981 |
| R. G. Bijlsma | |
| 45 | The Autumn Migration of Passerines and near-Passerines at the Bosphorus, Turkey |
| R. F. Porter | |
| 75 | The Sequence of Plumage Change and Polymorphism in the Indian Reef Heron |
| R. M. Naik and B. M. Parasharja | |
| 82 | A Contribution to the Ornithology of the Siwa Oasis and Qattara Depression, Egypt |
| S. M. Goodman and P. L. Ames | |
| 97 | Courtship Behaviour between Tree Sparrow and House Sparrow in the wild – a possible case of Hybridization |
| J. S. M. Albrecht | |
| 100 | The Occurrence of Saunder’s Little Tern in the Upper Arabian Gulf |
| C. J. O. Harrison | |
| 102 | The first identification of the Eastern Pied Wheatear in Jordan |
| D. I. M. Wallace | |
| 105 | An Analysis of some Eagle Owl pellets from Turkey |
| D. Morgan |
Editorial Board
Editor: Donald Parr
Editorial Committee: Lindon Cornwallis, David Fisher, Chris Harbard, Michael C. Jennings, and Alan Vittery
