Sandgrouse 23 2

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 23 (2) Autumn 2001

Sandgrouse Cover 23 (2)

Thick-billed Lark Ramphocoris clotbey taken by Hadoram Shirihai in the southern Negev, Israel, April 1999.

82OSME NEWS
  
85NEWS AND INFORMATION
 compiled by DEREK MOORE AND GUY M. KIRWAN
89REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
  
90Migration at Chokpak, Kazakhstan
 E. I. GAVRILOV AND A. E. GAVRILOV
101PHOTOSPOT Armash Fishponds
 SIMON BUSUTTIL AND VASIL ANANIAN
104PROFILE Richard Porter
 SIMON ASPINALL
106Distribution and current status of Great Bustard Otis tarda in the Konya Basin, central Turkey
 CAMIEL HEUNKS, ECKHART HEUNKS, GUVEN EKEN AND BAHTIYAR KURT
112The occurrence of Great Black-headed Gull Larus ichthyaetus in Cyprus
 ROBERT FROST AND PETER FLINT
119Affinities of Cyprus Warbler Sylvia melanothorax
 PETER FLINT
124Autumn routes of migrating raptors and other soaring birds in Lebanon
 COLIN M. BEALE AND GHASSAN RAMADAN-JARADI
130The discovery of Oriental White-eye Zosterops palpebrosa in Arabia
 HANNE ERIKSEN, JENS ERIKSEN, SALIM AL-SAADI AND DAVE E. SARGEANT
134The establishment of Bank Mynah Acridotheres ginginianus as a breeding species in Kuwait
 GEORGE GREGORY AND KHALID AL-NASRALLAH
139Notes on three bird species in Iran
 BIJAN DARREH-SHOORI, CHRISTOPHE TOURENQ, BAHRAM ZEHZAD, LAURENT TATIN, DAVID TATIN AND BIJAN AZMAYESH
140Apparent predation attempt by Lammergeier Gypaetus barbatus on Black Vulture Aegypius monachus chick in Turkey
 AKIF AYKURT AND CEM ORKUN KIRAC
141An intrageneric Accipiter hybrid from Eilat, Israel
 REUVEN YOSEF, ANDREAS J. HELBIG AND WILLIAM S. CLARK
145The first Painted Snipe Rostratula benghalensis in Jordan
 PETE M. ELLIS AND KEN SHAW
146The first European Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria in Jordan
 PETE M. ELLIS, KHALDOUN AL OMARI AND ANWAR EL HALAH
147Does Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago breed in Turkey?
 TIM MARLOW, GUY M. KIRWAN AND BURAK GUNES
148The validity of Monticola saxatilis coloratus Stepanyan, 1964
 GUY M. KIRWAN
149A previously unreported, Garrulus-like plumage pattern in Pleske’s Ground Jay Podoces pleskei
 TIZIANO LONDEI
152REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE
  
156Around the Region
 Compiled by DAWN BALMER AND KEITH BETTON
Editor:Guy M. Kirwan
Features EditorDerek Harvey
Assistant EditorIan J. Andrews
Editorial CommitteeMikael Blair, Paul Goriup, Mike Jennings, Rodney Martins, Peter L. Meininger & Dr Stephen Newton
Photographic EditorPaul Doherty
Design & ProductionHarry I. Scott
Identification ConsultantsC. G. Bradshaw,Arnoud B. den Berg & Steve Madge