Sandgrouse 24 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 24 (2) 2002

Sandgrouse Cover 24 (2)

Red-tailed Wheatear Oenanthe xanthoprymna, taken by Tim Loseby.

82OSME NEWS
  
84NEWS AND INFORMATION
 compiled by GUY M. KIRWAN
87REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
  
88Identification, plumages, taxonomy and biology of Arabian Warbler Sylvia leucomelaena
 HADORAM SHIRIHAI, GABRIEL GARGALLO, ANDREAS HELBIG, ALAN HARRIS AND DAVID COTTRIDGE
105The discovery of a breeding colony of Jouanin’s Petrel Bulweria fallax on Socotra, Yemen
 NADIM MOHAMED ABDULLAH TALEB
109Current state of the Great Bustard Otis tarda wintering population in south Ukraine
 YURIY ANDRYUSHCHENKO
117Observations on the breeding biology and population of Socotra Cisticola Cisticola haesitatus
 KAREL STASTNY AND VLADIMÍR BEJCEK
122The captive origin of bird species in Kuwait
 GEORGE GREGORY
130Age at first breeding of Lammergeier Gypaetus barbatus
 STAVROS XIROUCHAKIS AND COSTAS GRIVAS
135The first breeding record of Striated Heron Butorides striatus in Israel
 REUVEN YOSEF, MARTIN RYDBERG-HEDAEN, LYNETTE MITCHELL AND HENK SMIT
136The first records, including breeding, of Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus in Iraq
 MUDHAFAR A. SALIM
138Interspecific interaction between Lammergeier Gypaetus barbatus and Black Vulture Aegypius monachus: predation or kleptoparasitism?
 ANTONI MARGALIDA AND RAFAEL HEREDIA
140Melanistic Levant Sparrowhawk Accipiter brevipes in south-west Bulgaria
 BORIS P. NIKOLOV
141An unusual record of a European Bee-eater Merops apiaster from Eilat-inside a Tiger Shark Galeocerdo cuvier
 REUVEN YOSEF, DAVID ZAKAI, MARTIN RYDBERG-HEDAEN AND RUBEN NIKOLAJSEN
142Second breeding record of Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius in Eilat
 REUVEN YOSEF
144The first Mongolian Trumpeter Finch Bucanetes mongolicus in Armenia
 ROY BEDDARD, VASIL ANANIAN AND MARK FINN
147Further significant bird records from south-east Iran
 DAMIAN NOWAK AND KONRAD ALI SACHANOWICZ
149PHOTOSPOT Birds of Birecik
 GUY M. KIRWAN
154REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE
  
156AROUND THE REGION
 Compiled by DAWN BALMER AND KEITH BETTON
Editor:Guy M. Kirwan
Features EditorSituation Vacant
Assistant EditorSituation Vacant
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