Sandgrouse Supplement 4 (2018)

Cover photo: Pharaoh Eagle Owl Bubo ascalaphus in a sand storm, 27 January 2017, Jubail, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. © Jem Babbington

2	Chairman’s Foreword.
	R Sheldon
3	A history of OSME.
	R Porter
19	Azraq blues: a brief history of a Jordanian oasis drunk dry.
	DIM Wallace
25	Some of my IWRB reminiscences of the Middle East and Pakistan.
	F Koning
30	Remembering Ali Kizilay.
	R Porter
35	Photospot.
	J Eriksen
39	My ‘local patch’ at Dhahran Hills, Saudi Arabia.
	J Babbington
60	Raptor inventory of the Karatau state nature reserve, southern Kazakhstan.
	S Oppel, J Vickery, A Zavalishina, A Smagulova & A Turebaev
73	Al Wathba wetland reserve, Abu Dhabi emirate: successful mixing of birds and people.
	O Campbell, Salim Javid, Shaika al Dhaheri, Khaldoun Ameen al Omari, Pritpal Soorae & Ahmed al Dhaheri
85	Diurnal raptor migration, including wintering, on the Arabian peninsula, an overview.
	MJ McGrady
105	Chance and challenges in the protection of three avian wetland specialists, Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos, Clamorous Reed Warbler Acrocephalus stentoreus and Dead Sea Sparrow Passer moabiticus, in the Jordan valley, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
	F Khoury
113	The unnatural history of desert birds in the Arabian peninsula. A review.
	PJ Cowan
118	A brief country by country guide to birdwatching in the OSME region.
	Robert Sheldon

Editor:

Dr Peter Cowan Sandgrouse editor, University of Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman/Chesterfield, UK.

Editorial Board

AbdulRahman Al-Sirhan (Kuwait), Vasil Ananian (Armenia), 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), Dr Paul Donald (UK), 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), Colin Richardson (Cyprus), Dr Manuel Schweizer (Switzerland), Dr Derek Scott (UK), Dr Robert Sheldon (UK), Arend Wassink (Netherlands), Geoff Welch (France).