Neotropical Birding 11

Where to watch raptor migration in the Caribbean
Matias A. Juhant
4

What’s the point of field guides: taxonomy or utility?
Steve N. G. Howell, Alvaro Jaramillo, Nigel Redman, and Robert S. Ridgely
16

Observations at a nest of Amazonian Pygmy Owl Glaucidium hardyi in French Guiana
Tanguy Deville and Johan Ingels
23

Romancing the Stone…er, Barbet
Daniel F. Lane
27

Splits, lumps and shuffles
Alexander C. Lees
33

Nightbird paradise: owls and other nocturnal birds in northern Peru
Daniel Lebbin, Fábio Olmos, Rob Williams, and Constantino Aucca Chutas
41

Jamaica -“the fairest island”
Guy M. Kirwan
47

Photospot: Tufted Coquette courtship: a view from behind a lens
Dr Geoffrey Einon
56

Photospot: Endemic Brazilian tapaculos, with a brief résumé of their current taxonomy
Andrew Whittaker and Jaqueline Rizzi Fortuna
62

Photospot: Recent observations of White-rimmed Brush Finch Atlapetes leucopis in Sucumbíos province, north-east Ecuador
Sam Woods, Andrew Spencer and Dušan M. Brinkhuizen
67

Acknowledging an Amazon avifauna in crisis
Jeremy P. Bird and Alexander C. Lees
74