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SANDGROUSE
Volume 28 (2) Autumn 2006
Editor
    Michael Blair
- ed@osme.org

Features Editor
   Situation Vacant

Assistant Editor
   Dawn Balmer

Editorial Committee
   Paul Goriup
   Mike Jennings
   Simon
   Aspinall
   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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pin-tailed Sandgrouse Pterocles alchata wing-stretching, near Kibbutz Revivim in the Negev, Israel, on 1 March 2006
© Rony Livne

 

98 EDITORIAL
99 OSME NEWS
101 NEWS AND INFORMATION
compiled by DAWN BALMER & KEITH BETTON
PAPERS AND NOTES
106 Ringing four breeding waterbird species at Lake Tashk M. E. SEHHATISBET, M. BALOUCH, A. BAHMAN-POUR, A. KHALEGHIZADEH & Z. ELAHI-RAD 
114 Autumn 2004 raptor migration in the Novosibirsk region and the Kuznetsky Alatau, Russia J. PROBST & M. PAVLICEV 
119 Observations on the avifauna of the eastern Jordan valley, during july-August 2005 F. KHOURY, K. AL-OMARI, J. AZAR & I. AL-HASANI
127 Sabkhat al-Jabbul, a Threatened Ramsar Wetland in Syria G. SERRA, D. MURDOCH, F. TURKELBOOM, F. TRAVERT, Y. MUJAWER & D. A. SCOTT
142 Distribution and population size of Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca in Iran J. MANSOORI
146 Fuether significant extensions of migrant distribution and breeding and wintering ranges in Iran for over 60 species M. E. SEHHATISBET, S. B. MUSAVI, P. BAKHTIARI, D. MOGHADDAS, N. HAMIDI, B. NEZAMI & A. KHALEGHIZADEH
156 Status and distribution of selected bird species on the Russian-Kazakhstan border northwest of the Caspian Sea V. Y. ARKHIPOV
161 A note on predatory and parasitic behaviour of Stercorarius skuas migrating off Muscat, Oman K. SCHJØLBERG
163 Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos nesting on Mount Erciyes, Kayseri Province, Turkey T. BRUSH 
164 The first record of Barn Owl Tyto alba north of Mount Alburz, northern Iran D. MOGHADAS & K. RABIEE 
165 First confirmed record of Eagle Owl Bubo bubo for Lebanon, 2004 R. PRIOR & P. BAYLE  
167 Prey species of Eagle Owl Bubo bubo in Lebanon P. BAYLE & R. PRIOR
168 Prey-exchange and hunting techniques of Sooty Falcons Falco concolor in Muscat, Oman K. SCHJØLBERG
171 The first Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea in Kuwait K. AL-GHANEM
172 The first Black-throated Thrush Turdus ruficolis atrogularis in Turkey E. YOGURTCOUGLU
173 First breeding record of Trumpeter Finch Rhodopechys [Bucanetes] githagineus in Syria G. SERRA, M. ABDALLAH & G. AL-QAIMM
174 Some notes on raptors and other birds from Afghanistan in autumn 2005
P. KOWATSCH & R. PROBST
176 Bird Sites of the OSME Region - 1 and 2 N. MORAN
179 Possible first Asian Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa dauurica in Iran and the Middle East M. E. SEHHATISBET
180 PHOTO SPOT Georgia K. DE ROUK
181 Dark finches found at Ilam, Iran S. B. MUSAVI
 182 REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE
 182 LETTER TO THE EDITOR - COLIN RICHARDSON
170 AROUND THE REGION
Compiled by DAWN BALMER AND KEITH BETTON


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