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 32 (1) Spring 2010
Cover photo: Citrine Wagtail Motacilla citreola near Istanbul, Turkey, April. © Haldun Savas.
| 02 | Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus preying on White-eyed Gull Larus leucophthalmus in Egypt. |
| Attila D Sándor & István Moldován | |
| 04 | Migration of harriers and other raptors at Ashura Deh, Iran, April 2008. |
| Magnus Ullman & Mattias Ullman | |
| 13 | Notes on nest and breeding of Afghan Snowfinch Pyrgilauda theresae, Bamiyan province, Afghanistan. |
| Simon Busuttil, Raffael Ayé & Chris Shank | |
| 15 | Rare birds (Streptopelia roseogrisea, Caprimulgus europaeus unwini, Iduna rama, Acrocephalus agricola) at Eilat’s ringing station, Israel, autumn 2008. |
| Noam Weiss & Reuven Yosef | |
| 20 | Spring migration of soaring birds over the Bosphorus, Turkey, in 2006. |
| Özkan Üner, Kerem Ali Boyla, Ergün Bacak, Ertugrul Birel, Ilhan Çelikoba , Cem Dalyan, Evrim Tabur & Ümit Yardim | |
| 34 | Probable breeding of the Black-eared Wheatear Oenanthe hispanica melanoleuca on Cyprus. |
| Christoph Randler & Alan Crabtree | |
| 37 | First record of Ultramarine Flycatcher Ficedula superciliaris in Iran and the Middle East. |
| Saeed Cheraghi & Mohammad Tohidifar | |
| 39 | Status of East Siberian Wagtail Motacilla (alba) ocularis in Kazakhstan. |
| Arend Wassink | |
| 41 | Lesser Frigatebird Fregata ariel new to Yemen. |
| Simon Aspinall & David Stanton | |
| 43 | Studies of Socotran birds V. On the validity of Anthus similis sokotrae and a few remarks on Arabian and northeast African populations of Long-billed Pipit A. similis. |
| Guy M Kirwan & Andrew Grieve | |
| 50 | Observations on the Gambaga Flycatcher Muscicapa gambagae in Yemen, May 2009. |
| Werner Müller | |
| 55 | First record of White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus in Saudi Arabia. |
| Graham R Lobley & Philip Roberts | |
| 57 | Observation of apparent tool use by an Abyssinian White-eye Zosterops abyssinicus on Socotra, Yemen. |
| RF Porter | |
| 59 | Observation of a large flock of Sociable Lapwings Vanellus gregarius in southeast Egypt. |
| Attila D Sándor, Cristian Domsa & István Moldován | |
| 61 | Bird Sites of the OSME Region 6—Birding the Palmyra area, Syria. |
| DA Murdoch | |
| 80 | Reviews. |
| 84 | OSME News. |
| Geoff Welch | |
| 86 | News & Information |
| Dawn Balmer (compiler) | |
| 90 | Erratum & Corrigendum. |
| 91 | Around the Region. |
| Dawn Balmer & David Murdoch (compilers) | |