2 Welcome to Neotropical Birding 29 JAMES LOWEN
NEW BOOK
3 What’s the word, hummingbird? JON DUNN
7 Birding northeast Suriname REMCO HOFLAND
FEATURE
22 American Bird Conservancy Neotropical conservation programmes DANIEL J. LEBBIN
BIRDING SITES
38 Panama’s Darién: in search of Dusky-backed Jacamar ASHLEY SAUNDERS
BIRDING TALES
43 Forty years of birding Peru. BARRY WALKER
SPLITS, LUMPS AND SHUFFLES
60 Splits, lumps and shuffles. THOMAS S. SCHULENBERG
REVIEWS
72 The largest avian radiation MIKE HOIT
73 Birds of Chile RAYMOND JEFFERS
75 Birds and mammals of the Galapagos JAMES LOWEN
76 Birds of Colombia PETE MORRIS
78 The glitter in the green JAMES LOWEN
NBC NOTICEBOARD
79 NBC Noticeboard Chris Balchin
FRONT COVER
Saw-billed Hermit Ramphodon naevius, Folha Seca, São Paulo, Brazil, October 2019 (Jon Dunn ; 8 jondunn.com). Endemic to the Atlantic Forest, this Near Threatened species is the only member of its genus. Hummingbirds are celebrated in a new book by Jon Dunn, which features on p3 and is reviewed on p78.
