Welcome to our newest corporate sponsor, Birding Ecotours

The club is pleased to welcome its newest corporate sponsor, Birding Ecotours, which specialises in small group and custom birding tours throughout the world. Our complete list of corporate sponsors is steadily growing.

Gift Aid — Give more without giving more!

Are you a UK taxpayer? If so, have you filled out a Gift Aid form for the club yet? By doing so, you can increase the amount of your donation by 20% or more, at no additional cost to you. The government's Gift Aid scheme allows registered charities like the Neotropical Bird Club to reclaim the basic tax rate (currently 20%) on the gross equivalent of your contribution. For every £10 you pay in subscriptions or donations, the club can claim £2.50. Though these amounts may seem small, they certainly add up; our recent Gift Aid claim netted £891.18 in additional funds! Help us to boost the club’s funds by sending your Gift Aid form today.

Norfolk Meeting and 2012 AGM - 27 May

The next club meeting will be in Norfolk at Cley Village Hall on Sunday 27 May 2012. The meeting will include a selection of talks and a quiz, as well as the 2012 AGM. Check the Events page for full details, including the list of this year’s talks.

Please note that the last weekend in May is not a Bank Holiday weekend this year.

NBC FUNDRAISING TRIP TO PERU- November/December 2012

Following the success of our "members only" tour to Guyana, we’re offering another one, this time to Peru. The tour will visit three very different regions—Amazon forest, High Andes and the Humboldt Current. It will be led by Barry Walker, and is scheduled to run from 26 November to 11 December (in country dates), with an optional pelagic extension on 11 December.*

Target birds include Nocturnal Curassow, Allpahauyo Antbird, Mishana Tyrannulet, Junín Grebe, White-bellied Cinclodes, and Diademed Sandpiper-Plover. The 8-hour pelagic will search for petrels, including the endangered Peruvian Diving Petrel.

For details, download the full itinerary. Price: £3,475 (excluding all flights and pelagic)

*PLEASE NOTE: The tour’s dates have changed since the forthcoming Neotropical Birding 10 went to press. The new dates remain subject to final confirmation.

Helping on Neotropical Birding

Now that Neotropical Birding is well established, we are looking to add new members to our editorial team. If you have ideas for articles that should be commissioned, a flair for design, an eye for an image and/or expertise in copy-editing, please e-mail us at neotropical.birding-at-neotropicalbirdclub.org. (Replace -at- with @; we’re displaying the address this way to help us avoid unwanted spam.)

Photo request: shrike-tyrants Agriornis

Juan Ignacio Areta and colleagues are preparing an identification article on shrike-tyrants Agriornis for Neotropical Birding. To aid their research and for potential publication, please e-mail your photographs of this genus to neotropical.birding-at-neotropicalbirdclub.org. (Replace -at- with @; we’re displaying the address this way to help us avoid unwanted spam.) Please label your images with the species, location, date and your name.

NBC on Facebook

NBC now has its own Facebook Group, entitled Neotropical Bird Club. If you are a Facebook member, please join the group, post photos, and take part in discussions! The URL is http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=31491408108