Description
Editorial
2 Welcome to Neotropical Birding 23
JAMES LOWEN
Birding at the Cutting Edge
3 The ultimate trek? Seeing Blue-bearded Helmetcrest in Colombia
STEPHAN LORENZ
Feature
13 The flamingos, the fable and the fair
JAMES LOWEN
Globally Threatened Bird
14 Sympathy for the grebes: Hooded Grebe conservation programme update (2011–2017)
Ignacio Roesler, Laura Fasola and Patrick Buchanan
Feature
25 New eyes on the Neotropics
Josh Jones
BIRDING SITE
33 Seeing Cuba’s endemic birds and other specialities
Christopher Sharpe
New Book
47 New bird species from the Neotropics: 50 years of discovery
David Brewer
SPLITS LUMPS AND SHUFFLES
55 Splits, lumps and shuffles
Thomas S. Schulenberg
Globally Threatened Bird
61 Last call for the Peruvian Plantcutter
Jeremy Flanagan
Feature
68 An overview of bird records committees in the Neotropics
Juan Freile, Alejandro Solano Ugalde, Martyn Kenefick, Alexander Lees, Vítor Piacentini, Luis Sandoval, Thomas Valqui, Fernando Angulo-Pratolongo, Jhonathan Miranda, Olivier Claessens and Christopher Sharpe
Club noticeboard
76 Club Noticeboard
CHRIS BALCHIN
FRONT COVER
Male Araripe Manakin Antilophia bokermanni rain-bathing at Arajara Park, Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil, on 1 December 2016 (Rob Hutchinson/Birdtour Asia). One of many new Neotropical species to feature in David Brewer’s article (page 47–54).
