Sandgrouse 18 1

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 18 (1) Spring 1996

Sandgrouse Cover 18 (1)

Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles excustus , female at Yalooni, Oman taken by Hanne & Jens Eriksen.

2OSME NEWS
  
3NEWS AND INFORMATION
  
8REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
  
10Observations on Long-billed Pipit Anthus similis in Jerusalem
 DR ADY GANCZ
14The Zaranik Experience
 WAHEED SALAMA AND ANDREW GRIEVE
18PHOTOSPOT Philby’s and Arabian Partridges
 Rodney Martins and Guy Kirwan
22PROFILE Dr. Abdulaziz H. Abuzinada
 S. Fazi
24The birds of Thumamah, Central Province, Saudi Arabia
 FRANK RIETKERK AND TIM WACHER
53Notes on the coastal birds of Libya, July 1993
 PETER L. MEININGER, PIM A.WOLF, DAU A. HADOUD AND MOHAMED F.A. ESSGHAIER
61Spring raptor movements at Gebel el Zeit, Egypt
 ANDREW GRIEVE
64The first Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum in Egypt
 MINDY AND SHERIF BAHA EL DIN
66The first Woodlark Lullula arborea in Saudi Arabia
 BRIAN S. MEADOWS AND PETER SYMENS
68The first White-crowned Black Wheatear Oenanthe leucopyga in Turkey
 ALBERTO SORACE
69The first Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus in Egypt
 MINDY BAHA EL DIN
70REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE
  
76AROUND THE REGION
 Compiled by pete davidson and Guy Kirwan
Editor:Guy M. Kirwan
Features EditorDerek Harvey
Assistant EditorIan J. Andrews
Editorial CommitteeMike Evans, Mike Jennings, Rodney Martins & Dr Stephen Newton
Photographic EditorPaul Doherty
Design & ProductionHarry I. Scott
Identification ConsultantsArnoud B. den Berg & Steve Madge