Editorial
2 Welcome to Neotropical Birding 24
JAMES LOWEN
BIRDING SITE
3 Seeing Rufous-crowned Antpitta (and more!) at Mashpi Shungo reserve, Ecuador
ALEJANDRO SOLANO-UGALDE
BIRDING SITE
9 Birding Intervales, Brazil
FRED Tavares
BIRDING SITE
19 Amazon lodges in Ecuador: an overview
Sam Woods, Scott Olmstead and José Illanes
SPLITS LUMPS AND SHUFFLES
31 Splits, lumps and shuffles
Thomas S. Schulenberg
Feature
40 Acapulco to Veracruz – home to Mexico’s better endemics!
RAYMOND JEFFERS
Feature
48 The 2018 IUCN Red List in the Neotropics
James Lowen, Hannah Wheatley, Claudia Hermes, Ian Burfield and David Wege
Globally Threatened Bird
55 The Grey-bellied Comet – threatened enigma of the Peruvian Andes
Jeremy Flanagan
NEOTROPICAL NOTEBOOK
62 Neotropical Notebook
COMPILED BY James Lowen
CONSERVATION AWARDS
71 NBC Conservation Awards update
Compiled by ChrisTOPHER J. Sharpe and Rob Clay
NBC NOTICEBOARD
78 NBC Noticeboard
CHRIS BALCHIN
FRONT COVER
Rufous-crowned Antpitta Pittasoma rufoplieatum, Mashpi Shungo, Pichincha, Ecuador, January 2017 (Pete Morris/Birdquest).
