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SANDGROUSE
Volume 24 (1) Spring 2002

Editor Guy M. Kirwan Features Editor Derek Harvey Assistant Editor Ian J. Andrews Editorial Committee Michael Blair, Paul Goriup, 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		OSME NEWS
		NEWS AND INFORMATION compiled by DEREK MOORE AND GUY M. KIRWAN
		REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
	9	Middle East birding contacts and organisations EFFIE WARR
	13	The Turkmenian Kopet Dag M. CALDERBANK
	19	PHOTOSPOT Black-headed Heron JØRN R.GUSTAD
		PAPERS AND NOTES
	22	Decline in breeding Sociable Plover Chettusia gregaria in the steppes of Naurzum and Korgalzhyn, Kazakhstan GÖTZ EICHHORN AND VALERI V. KHROKOV
	28	Lek-like behaviour by Chukar Alectoris chukar, a socially monogamous partridge SALIT KARK
	33	Further notes on the breeding biology of some birds in Saudi Arabia PETER CASTELL, JEFFORY COBURN, BERNARD PLEASANCE, TOM QUITTENDEN AND MOHAMMED SHOBRAK
	38	Birds of Goksu Dam (Diyarbakir) and new records in south-east Turkey RECEP KARAKAS AND AHMET KILIÇ
		Bird notes from Lebanon, including two new species T. BARA
	46	Recent observations of some rare breeding birds in Armenia VASIL ANANIAN, SIMON BUSUTTIL AND MARK FINN
		Significant bird observations from Iran, August-September 1998 KONRAD ALI SACHANOWICZ, PIOTR KARCZMARCZYK AND ADAM OLSZEWSKI
	52	The first breeding records of Citrine Wagtail Motacilla citreola and Savi's Warbler Locustella luscinioides in Armenia VASIL ANANIAN AND SIMON BUSUTTIL
		The first Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica in Jordan GRAHAM TEBB AND NASHAT HAMIDAN
	55	Biometric variation in three migratory Accipiter species at Eilat, Israel REUVEN YOSEF, JAN LONTKOWSKI, TADEUSZ STAWARCZYK AND PETER FEHERVARI
		First record of Green Warbler Phylloscopus nitidus in western Saudi Arabia S. OSTROWSKI AND E. GUINARD
	60	An unusual Long-legged Buzzard Buteo rufinus at Eilat, Israel REUVEN YOSEF, WILLIAM S. CLARK AND STEVE HOFFMAN
Pander's Ground Jay Podoces panderi, taken by Tim Loseby.	63	First ringing record of Pied Stonechat Saxicola caprata in the Western Palearctic, at Eilat, Israel REUVEN YOSEF AND MARTIN RYDBERG-HEDAEN
		The first Red-knobbed Coots Fulica cristata in Oman and the Middle East JØRN R. GUSTAD AND KOLBJØRN SCHJØLBERG
	68	PROFILE Keith Betton DAWN BALMER
	69	REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE
		AROUND THE REGION Compiled by DAWN BALMER AND KEITH BETTON

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