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SANDGROUSE
Volume 19 (2)

Editor
   Guy M. Kirwan

Features Editor
   Derek Harvey

Assistant Editor
   Ian J. Andrews

Editorial Committee
   Duncan J. Brooks,
   Mike Evans, Ben Hoare,
   Mike Jennings,
   Rodney Martins
   & Dr. Stephen Newton

Photographic Editor
   Paul Doherty

Design &Production
   Harry I. Scott

Identification Consultants
   C. G. Bradshaw,
   Arnoud B. van den Berg
   & Steve Madge

OSME NEWS
NEWS AND INFORMATION
REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
FEATURES
  88    Observations of Pleske’s Ground Jay Podoces pleskei in central Iran DR AKBAR HAMEDANIAN
  92    Al Mahwit: a rich Yemen avifauna DAVID STANTON
  96 PROFILE
Sherif M. Baha El Din ANDREW GRIEVE
  99 PHOTOSPOT
Painted Snipe GUY M. KIRWAN
PAPERS AND NOTES
 102 A Red Data List for the birds of the United Arab Emirates RICHARD HORNBY AND SIMON ASPINALL
 111 Which large gulls from the Larus fuscus–cachinnans–argentatus complex of (sub)species occur in Bahrain? PIERRE YÉSOU AND ERIK HIRSCHFELD
Notes on some breeding birds in Lebanon GHASSAN RAMADAN-JARADI AND MONA RAMADAN-JARADI
 126 A baseline survey of the Black Vulture Aegypius monachus in western Turkey BORJA HEREDIA, STEPHEN J. PARR AND MURAT YARAR
 133 A review of claimed records of Lesser Sand Plover Charadrius mongolus from Cyprus and Turkey PETER R. FLINT, PETER F. STEWART AND GUY M. KIRWAN
Striated Heron Butorides striatus breeding in the Egyptian Nile Valley KLAAS-DOUWE DIJKSTRA
The first Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca in Yemen DR OMAR AL-SAGHIER AND R. F. PORTER
The first African Spoonbill Platalea alba in Yemen DR OMAR AL-SAGHIER AND R. F. PORTER
The first White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons in Yemen DR OMAR AL-SAGHIER, R. F. PORTERAND D. B. STANTON
The first Cotton Teal Nettapus coromandelianus in Jordan RICHARD BASHFORD
The first Crested Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus in Oman JENS ERIKSEN
 144 Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus breeding in central Turkey BERNARD PLEASANCE
 145 Corncrake Crex crex breeding in north-east Turkey IAN A. GREEN
The first White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis in Turkey and the Middle East SEAN BROWNE
 147 Regular wintering by Scops Owl Otus scops in Turkey, at Havran Delta GÜVEN EKEN
 148 Long-eared Owl Asio otus status in Syria THE EDITORS
 148 Diet of Long-eared Owls Asio otus wintering in the Khula valley, Israel REUVEN YOSEF
White-collared Kingfisher Halcyon chloris,
taken by
Dave Robinson

OSME is grateful for sponsership
from Subbuteo towards the cost
of printing the colour photographs
inside this issue.

The first Hoopoe Lark Alaemon alaudipes in Turkey NAPIER SHELTON
The first Grasshopper Warbler Locustella naevia in Yemen DR OMAR AL-SAGHIER AND R. F. PORTER
 152 REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE
 
AROUND THE REGION
      P. DAVIDSON AND G. M. KIRWAN


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