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SANDGROUSE
Volume 24 (2) Autumn 2002
Editor
   Guy M. Kirwan

Features Editor
   Situation Vacant

Assistant Editor
   Situation Vacant

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 GUY M. KIRWAN
REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
PAPERS AND NOTES
 88 Identification, plumages, taxonomy and biology of Arabian
Warbler Sylvia leucomelaena HADORAM SHIRIHAI, GABRIEL GARGALLO, ANDREAS HELBIG, ALAN HARRIS AND DAVID COTTRIDGE
105 The discovery of a breeding colony of Jouanin's Petrel Bulweria fallax on Socotra, Yemen NADIM MOHAMED ABDULLAH TALEB
109 Current state of the Great Bustard Otis tarda wintering population in south Ukraine YURIY ANDRYUSHCHENKO
117 Observations on the breeding biology and population of Socotra Cisticola Cisticola haesitatus KAREL STASTNY AND VLADIMÍR BEJCEK
122 The captive origin of bird species in Kuwait GEORGE GREGORY
130 Age at first breeding of Lammergeier Gypaetus barbatus STAVROS XIROUCHAKIS AND COSTAS GRIVAS
The first breeding record of Striated Heron Butorides striatus in Israel REUVEN YOSEF, MARTIN RYDBERG-HEDAEN, LYNETTE MITCHELL AND HENK SMIT
The first records, including breeding, of Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus in Iraq MUDHAFAR A. SALIM
138 Interspecific interaction between Lammergeier Gypaetus barbatus and Black Vulture Aegypius monachus: predation or kleptoparasitism? ANTONI MARGALIDA AND RAFAEL HEREDIA
140 Melanistic Levant Sparrowhawk Accipiter brevipes in south-west Bulgaria BORIS P. NIKOLOV
141 An 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
142 Second breeding record of Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius in Eilat REUVEN YOSEF
Red-tailed Wheatear Oenanthe xanthoprymna, taken by Tim Loseby.

 

The first Mongolian Trumpeter Finch Bucanetes mongolicus in Armenia ROY BEDDARD, VASIL ANANIAN AND MARK FINN
Further significant bird records from south-east Iran DAMIAN NOWAK AND KONRAD ALI SACHANOWICZ
149 PHOTOSPOT
Birds of Birecik GUY M. KIRWAN
154 REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE
AROUND THE REGION
Compiled by DAWN BALMER AND KEITH BETTON

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