Editorial
2 Welcome to Neotropical Birding 20
JAMES LOWEN
Feature
3 Birding’s World Cup: Global Big Day (13 May 2017)
IAN DAVIES
Better Neotropical Birding
9 Developing a key to bird songs along Panama’s Pipeline Road using xeno-canto recordings
KENT LIVEZEY
BIRDING AT THE CUTTING EDGE
15 First photographs of White-fronted Swift Cypseloides storeri, a poorly known Mexican endemic
ChrisTOPHER J. Sharpe, Andrew Spencer, Nathan Pieplow AND Brian Gibbons
Birding at the Cutting Edge
21 A mysterious antshrike from eastern Colombia
PABLO FLOREZ
Splits, lumps, shuffles
25 Splits, lumps and shuffles
Thomas S. Schulenberg
Birding Sites
33 Birding Serra dos Órgãos and Guapimirim, Rio de Janeiro
DANIEL MELLO AND GABRIEL MELLO
Birding Sites
43 Birding Ecuador’s seventh heaven
JAMES LOWEN
CONSERVATION AWARDS
56 Conservation Awards
Compiled by JEZ BIRD
Reviews
64 Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: the Atlantic Forest of Southeast Brazil
GUY KIRWAN
66 Peterson field guide to the birds of northern Central America
KATINKA DOMEN
68 Birds of northern South America: an identification guide. All birds Ecuador version
JAMES LOWEN
Photospot
71 Fuegian Snipe on Cape Horn!
FABRICE SCHMITT
Club noticeboard
77 Club noticeboard
Compiled by CHRIS BALCHIN
FRONT COVER
Moss-backed Tanager Bangsia edwardsi is a sought-after Chocó endemic, here photographed at Mashpi Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador in November 2016 (James Lowen; www. jameslowen.com)
