Sandgrouse

Sandgrouse is published by OSME and contains papers and short notes on the ornithology of the OSME region, provides bird and conservation news from the region and a comprehensive round up of bird sightings in the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Sandgrouse Volume 21 (1) Spring 1999

Sandgrouse Cover 21 (1)

Small Skylark Alauda gulgula, taken by Leo J.R. Boon at Eilat, Israel.

2 OSME NEWS
2 NEWS AND INFORMATION
4 REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
5 PHOTOSPOT Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse
HADORAM SHIRIHAI, REUVEN YOSEF, PAUL DOHERTY & DAN ALON
9 PROFILE Hadoram Shirihai
GUY M. KIRWAN & RICHARD PORTER
10 Jordan Bird Report 1995-97
IAN J. ANDREWS, FARES KHOURY & HADORAM SHIRIHAI
36 A checklist of the birds of Israel and Jordan
HADORAM SHIRIHAI IAN J. ANDREWS, GUY M. KIRWAN & PETER DAVIDSON
45 Fifty species new to Israel, 1979-1998: their discovery and documentation, with tips on identification
HADORAM SHIRIHAI
106 REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE
108 AROUND THE REGION GUY M. KIRWAN

























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Sandgrouse Volume 21 (1)

Editor
Guy M. Kirwan
Features Editor
Derek Harvey
Assistant Editor
Ian 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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