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SANDGROUSE
Volume 20 (1) Spring 1998

Editor Guy M. Kirwan Features Editor Derek Harvey Assistant Editor Ian J. Andrews Editorial Committee Michael Blair, Duncan J. Brooks, 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
	8		Pale Rock Sparrow Carpospiza brachydactyla a little known Middle Eastern bird GUY M. KIRWAN
	13		Birding in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon CHRIS AND ALISON WALLEY
	17	PROFILE
			Mike Jennings DEREK HARVEY
	18	PHOTOSPOT
			Arabian and Radde's Accentor RODNEY P. MARTINS
		PAPERS AND NOTES
	22		The breeding birds of the Sharra Highland Plateau, Jordan FARES KHOURY
	30		The effects of disturbance on migrant waders at Eilat, Israel R. L. GLASER, K. HORSEPOOL, N. SIMHAI AND R. YOSEF
	36		Video monitoring observations of a Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis undulata nest in Mahazat as-Sayd Reserve, central Saudi Arabia RICHARD F. MALONEY
	40		Selected records from Cheikh Zennad, a coastal wetland in north-east Lebanon THIERRY BARA
			The first Mute Swan Cygnus olor and Radde's Accentor Prunella ocularis in Jordan ERIK HANSSON, ANDERS MAGNUSSON AND PER ERIKSSON
	47		Breeding survey of White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala on the Central Plateau, Turkey KATHERINE ROBINSON, LUCY HOLT, YVONNE BUCKLEY, TIM PULLEN, KEREM BOYLA AND OKAN CAN
			The first Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris in Yemen AAAT SCHAFTENAAR
			The first breeding record of Swift Tern Sterna bergii in Egypt PETER CASTELL
			Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus breeding in the Nile Delta, Egypt PETER L. MEININGER AND A. (JANUS) VERKERK
	53		Notes on the breeding and cooling behaviour of Hoopoe Lark in central Saudi Arabia MOHAMMED SHOBRAK
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus, taken by Hanne & Jens Eriksen at Sohar, Oman OSME is grateful for sponsership from Julian Francis towards the cost of printing the colour photographs inside this issue.
			The first Banded Martin Riparia cincta in Saudi Arabia C. M. SAUNDERS AND G. G. WEBBO
	56		Colour polymorphism in Eleonora's Falcon Falco eleonorae D. RISTOW, C. WINK, M. WINK AND W. SCHARLAU
			The birds of some of Yemen's Red Sea islands R. F. PORTER AND DR OMAR AL-SAGHIER
	68	REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE
		AROUND THE REGION P. DAVIDSON AND G. M. KIRWAN

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