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). |