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 22 (2) Autumn 2000
Eagle Owl Bubo bubo, taken by Leo Boon at Eilat, Israel, January 1993.
| 82 | OSME NEWS |
| 84 | REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION |
| 85 | NEWS AND INFORMATION |
| 87 | Habitat, distribution and breeding biology of Orphean Warbler Sylvia hortensis in south-east Bulgaria |
| BOCA MILCHEV AND ANTON KOVACHEV | |
| 93 | Dhahran: an Arabian Gulf hotspot |
| DR GRAHAM R. LOBLEY | |
| 101 | PHOTOSPOT Collared Pratincoles breeding in Oman |
| HANNE AND JENS ERIKSEN | |
| 104 | The desert birds of south-west Asia |
| P. J. COWAN | |
| 109 | The occurence of the North African subspecies of Mourning Wheatear Oenanthe lugens halophila in Egypt |
| SHERIF M. BAHA EL DIN AND MINDY BAHA EL DIN | |
| 113 | Primary moult in Egyptian Nightjar Caprimulgus aegyptius on autumn migration in Kuwait |
| GEORGE GREGORY | |
| 118 | A characterisation of the homozygous dark morph of Eleonora’s Falcon |
| D. RISTOW, L. WITTE AND M. WINK | |
| 122 | Notes on the birds of Lebanon, autumn-winter 1999 |
| COLIN BEALE | |
| 125 | Shearwater passage along the north Cyprus coast |
| ARTHUR STAGG | |
| 125 | The first Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis in Qatar and the Arabian Gulf |
| PETER HELLYER | |
| 127 | The first Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens in Jordan |
| HADORAM SHIRIHAI, FARES KHOURY, SHARIF AL-JBOUR AND REUVEN YOSEF | |
| 130 | The first Fulvous Whistling-duck Dendrocygna bicolor in Yemen and the Middle East |
| DAVID B. STANTON | |
| 131 | The first Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma in Israel and the Western Palearctic |
| HADORAM SHIRIHAI | |
| 133 | First and second records of Crested Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus in Iran |
| MARC DUQUET AND COLIN RICHARDSON | |
| 135 | Comments on the buzzards of the Central Plateau, Turkey |
| ALAN VITTERY | |
| 136 | Cannibalism and scavenging by wintering Coot Fulica atra |
| REUVEN YOSEF | |
| 137 | The first Lesser Moorhen Gallinula angulata in Egypt and the Western Palearctic |
| SEPPA HAAVISTO AND ANTE STRAND | |
| 139 | Status of White-tailed Plover Chettusia leucura and Sociable Plover Chettusia gregaria in coastal north-west Saudi Arabia–an addendum to Kasparek (1992) |
| BRIAN S. MEADOWS | |
| 141 | Physical characteristics of a hybrid Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica x House Martin Delichon urbica at Eilat, Israel |
| REUVEN YOSEF | |
| 143 | Two new bird species in Kuwait |
| N. CLEERE, D. KELLY AND C. W. T. PILCHER | |
| 145 | The first breeding record of Bearded Tit Panurus biarmicus in Syria |
| JOSÉ TAVARES, PEDRO SÁ PESSOA AND FAUSTO BRITO E ABREU | |
| 146 | Notes on the breeding biology of Arabian Babbler Turdoides squamiceps and nestlings of Common MynaAcridotheres tristis |
| PETER CASTELL | |
| 148 | PROFILE Geoff & Hilary Welch |
| DEREK HARVEY | |
| 152 | REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE |
| 156 | AROUND THE REGION |
| CHRIS G. BRADSHAW AND GUY KIRWAN |
| Editor: | Guy M. Kirwan |
| Features Editor | Derek Harvey |
| Assistant Editor | Ian J. Andrews |
| Editorial Committee | Mikael 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. den Berg & Steve Madge |