EDITORIAL
2 Welcome to Neotropical Birding 33!
JAMES LOWEN
FEATURE
3 Hunting of migratory shorebirds along the Atlantic Americas Flyway: an overlooked source of bushmeat
BRAD A. ANDRES
BIRDING AT THE CUTTING EDGE
14 A paradise lost in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro – and the hope of finding Kinglet Calyptura there
GABRIEL MELLO, DANIEL MELLO, GUSTAVO QUINTANILHA & PAULO HUNGRIA MACHADO
BIRDING SITE
31 Birding Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula
PILAR BERNAL CASTRO, DIONISIO PANIAGUA CASTRO & KAREN LEAVELLE
FEATURE
46 Teenage Hudsonian Godwits: a conservation priority
GRAHAM APPLETON
BETTER NEOTROPICAL BIRDING
53 Bird Sounds Global: automated species recognition with machine learning
SEBASTIAN ANDREJEFF & PETTERI LEHIKOINEN
SPLITS, LUMPS AND SHUFFLES
Thomas S. Schulenberg
BIRDING SITE
69 The birds of Playa Tarqui, Manta, Ecuador
ROLF JENSEN
FEATURE
74 Helping conserve Black-breasted Puffleg through sustainable ecotourism
JAMES LOWEN
REVIEWS
78 Birds of Colombia: a photographic guide
JOSH JONES
78 Birds of Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands
CHRIS BALCHIN
NBC NOTICEBOARD
80 NBC Noticeboard
Chris Balchin
FRONT COVER
Male Turquoise Cotinga Cotinga ridgwayi, Osa Peninsula, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, September 2020 (Henry Sandi ( sandi._.henry). This globally Vulnerable species can be seen on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula (p31).
