Description
Editorial
2 Welcome to Neotropical Birding 25
JAMES LOWEN
Feature
3 A potted history of the Neotropical Bird Club
CHRIS BALCHIN
Feature
11 Frontiers of knowledge: a quarter-century of Neotropical discovery
JAMES LOWEN, ALEXANDER LEES AND JOE TOBIAS
Feature
33 The 25 best Neotropical bird books from the last 25 years
RAYMOND JEFFERS
New Book
42 Then and now: a look at the ‘antpitta revolution’ of the past 25 years
HAROLD GREENEY
Globally Threatened Bird
52 Junin Grebe: the survivor of Peru’s high Andean wetlands
ALAN CHAMORRO AND CONSTANTINO AUCCA
Photospot
57 Three-wattled Bellbird: celebrating the bird behind the Neotropical Bird Club logo
GRAEME GREEN
BIRDING at the cutting edge
63 A blue throat out of the blue
JUAN FREILE
SPLITS LUMPS AND SHUFFLES
73 Splits, lumps and shuffles
Thomas S. Schulenberg
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80 The South American Bird Fair
james lowen
Reviews
86 Antpittas and gnateaters
CHRISTOPHER J. SHARPE
87 Birds of Venezuela
DAVID FISHER
88 Birds of Nicaragua: a field guide
CHRISTOPHER J. SHARPE
90 Birds of Chile: a photo guide
JAMES LOWEN
91 Birds of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao: a site and field guide
BERT DENNEMAN
92 Les oiseaux de Guyane
JAMES LOWEN
92 Birds of Central America
CHRISTOPHER J. SHARPE
NBC Noticeboard
94 NBC Noticeboard
CHRIS BALCHIN
Front Cover
Adult male Three-wattled Bellbird Procnias tricarunculatus, Angeles Norte, San Ramón, Alajuela, Costa Rica, April 2016 (Jorge Chinchilla A.). The species on the Neotropical Bird Club logo is treated to an article by Graeme Green (page 57).
