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 30 (1) Spring 2008
Great White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus Hula, Israel 4 Oct 2002 © Hadoram Shirihai
- Editorial
- OSME NEWS
- NEWS AND INFORMATION
- AROUND THE REGION
Compiled by DAWN BALMER AND KEITH BETTON - Revised checklist of the birds of Lebanon 1999-2007 Ghassan Ramadan-Jaradi, Thierry Bara & Mona Ramadan-Jaradi
- Observations from 1998 - 2006 on the breeding population of Sooty Falcons Falco concolor on the Hawar Islands, Kingdom of Bahrain Brendan Kavanagh & Howard King
- Outward (autumn) bird migration at the Southeastern Peninsula and Cape Greco, Cyprus: the phenologies of regular migrants Tobias Roth
- The first Namaqua Dove Oena capensis for Lebanon? Tomas Haraldsson
- An observation of Eurasian Nutcracker Nucifraga caryocatartes in Syria? Hans Ottelin
- Crepuscular foraging by Hoopoe Larks Alaemon alaudipes in the Kuwait summer P J Cowan
- Observations in Jerusalem of Common Swift Apus apus on the approach to the nest-site in high winds Ulrich Tigges
- Two new records for Arabia, autumn 2006 Nick Moran
- Are migration pathways of European Honey Buzzards Pernis apivorus passing over Cyprus age-related? Nicolantonio Agostini & Michele Panuccio
- The first Namaqua Dove Oena capensis in Iraq Mudhafar A Salim
- Bird-trapping in Syrian oases; the 'fig-bird' trade David Murdoch
- Bird Sites of the OSME Region - 4. El Gouna, near Hurghada, Egypt Kai Gauger & Christoph Vollm
- First record of Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes for Turkey Kiraz Erciyas, Pinar ozcam, Nizamettin Yavuz, Sadik Demirtas & Ozden Saglam
- PhotoSpot- 1. Buff-bellied Pipit Anthus rubescens japonicus. 2. Common Crane Grus grus and Demoiselle Crane Anthropoides virgo in formation. Amir Ben Dov