Contents 
I Impact of the Gulf War on birds MI Evans, CWT Pilcher and P Symens 
6 Blue Tits in Jordan Ian ] Andrews 
8 Birds and conservation in Egypt, past, present and 
future Mindy Baha El Din 
II Important Bird Areas in the Middle East: the new OSME/ICBP project 
MRW Rands and MI Evans 
13 Is Azraq still an oasis? Ian ] Andrews 
19 Turkey Bird Report: a request for records and notes for contributors 
Rod Martins and Richard Webb 
24 Karapinar Ovasi, a little-known Turkish IBA Guy Kirwan 
27 Turkish IBAs: an appeal for information 
29 More selected bird observations from Turkey, spring and summer 1990 
Jonathan Eames 
31 News and information Compiled by Simon Albrecht 
33 OSME news 
Thirteenth Annual General Meeting 
Retiring Council members 
Fourteenth Annual General Meeting 
Special Gulf meeting, 14 November 1991 
OSME tour to Egypt 
Cover auction 
38 Requests for infornnation 
40 Announcements 
40 Reviews 
43 Around the Region Compiled by Guy Kirwan 
OSME C/O THE LODGE, SANDY, BEDFORDSHIRE SG19 2DL, UK 
