Editor
Guy M. Kirwan
Features Editor
Derek Harvey
Assistant Editor
Ian J. Andrews
Editorial Committee
Michael Blair,
Paul Goriup,
Ben Hoare,
Mike Jennings,
Rodney Martins
Peter L.
Meininger
& Dr. Stephen
Newton
Photographic Editor
Paul Doherty
Design & Production
Harry I. Scott
Identification Consultants
C. G. Bradshaw,
Arnoud B. van
den Berg &
Steve Madge |
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OSME NEWS |
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NEWS AND INFORMATION
compiled by DEREK MOORE AND GUY M. KIRWAN |
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REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION |
| 90 |
Migration at Chokpak, Kazakhstan E. I. GAVRILOV
AND A. E. GAVRILOV |
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PHOTOSPOT
Armash Fishponds SIMON BUSUTTIL AND
VASIL ANANIAN |
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PROFILE
Richard Porter SIMON ASPINALL |
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PAPERS AND NOTES |
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Distribution and current status of Great Bustard
Otis tarda in the Konya Basin, central Turkey CAMIEL
HEUNKS, ECKHART HEUNKS,
GUVEN EKEN AND BAHTIYAR
KURT |
| 112 |
The occurrence of Great Black-headed Gull Larus
ichthyaetus in Cyprus
ROBERT FROST AND PETER
FLINT |
| 119 |
Affinities of Cyprus Warbler Sylvia melanothorax
PETER FLINT |
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Autumn routes of migrating raptors and other soaring
birds in Lebanon
COLIN M. BEALE AND GHASSAN
RAMADAN-JARADI |
| 130 |
The discovery of Oriental White-eye Zosterops
palpebrosa in Arabia
HANNE ERIKSEN, JENS
ERIKSEN, SALIM AL-SAADI
AND DAVE E. SARGEANT |
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The establishment of Bank Mynah Acridotheres
ginginianus as a breeding species in Kuwait GEORGE
GREGORY AND KHALID AL-NASRALLAH |
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Notes on three bird species in Iran BIJAN
DARREH-SHOORI, CHRISTOPHE
TOURENQ, BAHRAM ZEHZAD,
LAURENT TATIN, DAVID
TATIN AND BIJAN AZMAYESH |
| 140 |
Apparent predation attempt by Lammergeier Gypaetus
barbatus on Black Vulture Aegypius monachus chick in Turkey AKIF
AYKURT AND CEM ORKUN
KIRAC |
| 141 |
An intrageneric Accipiter hybrid from Eilat,
Israel
REUVEN YOSEF, ANDREAS
J. HELBIG AND WILLIAM S. CLARK |
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The first Painted Snipe Rostratula benghalensis
in Jordan
PETE M. ELLIS AND KEN
SHAW |
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The first European Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria
in Jordan
PETE M. ELLIS, KHALDOUN
AL OMARI AND ANWAR
EL HALAH |
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Thick-billed Lark Ramphocoris clotbey taken by Hadoram Shirihai in the southern Negev, Israel, April 1999.
OSME is grateful for sponsership from Julian Francis towards the
cost of printing the
colour photographs
inside this issue.
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147 |
Does Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago breed
in Turkey?
TIM MARLOW, GUY
M. KIRWAN AND BURAK GUNES |
| 148 |
The validity of Monticola saxatilis coloratus
Stepanyan, 1964
GUY M. KIRWAN |
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A previously unreported, Garrulus-like plumage pattern
in Pleske's Ground Jay Podoces pleskei TIZIANO
LONDEI |
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REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE |
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Around the Region
Compiled by DAWN BALMER AND
KEITH BETTON |
Copyright © Ornithological Society of the Middle East 2002. All rights
reserved.
