EDITORIAL
2 Welcome to Neotropical Birding 36!
James Lowen
BIRDING AT THE CUTTING EDGE
3 The Tres Marías Islands—Mexico’s mini-Galapagos
STEVE HOWELL, JONATHAN VARGAS, SINEAD GÓMEZ ROSAS & LUKE SEITZ
BIRDING AT THE CUTTING EDGE
23 Wings and whiskers: a bird and mammal adventure into El Beni, Bolivia
ROB JANSEN
BIRDING SITES
41 Seeing threatened grassland specialities in Argentina’s Esteros del Iberá
MILOSZ COUSENS
BIRDING SITES
JOSH JONES
BIRDING TALES
59 An antbird quest… seeing Acre Antshrike in Brazil
JONATHAN NEWMAN
SPLITS, LUMPS AND SHUFFLES
THOMAS S. SCHULENBERG
REVIEWS
77 A field guide to the larger mammals of South America
ROBERT WILLIAMS
78 Field guide to North American flycatchers: kingbirds and Myiarchus
MICHAEL CARMODY
NBC NOTICEBOARD
80 NBC Noticeboard
CHRIS BALCHIN
FRONT COVER
Male Cock-tailed Tyrant Alectrurus tricolor, between Santa Ana de Yacuma and Exaltación, El Beni, Bolivia, September 2022 (Rob Jansen; 8 robjansenphotography.com). This vulnerable tyrant flycatcher was one of many exciting species seen by the author as he explored northern Bolivia (p23).
