GUEST EDITORIAL
2Â Â Â Â Â Â Welcome to Neotropical Birding and Conservation
RAYMOND JEFFERS
BIRDING TALES
3Â Â Â Â Â Â Mexico: birth of a bird book and beyond
STEVE N. G. HOWELL
BIRDING AT THE CUTTING EDGE
20Â Â Airport birding in Latin America and the Caribbean
DANIEL J. LEBBIN
FEATURE
JOHN C. MITTERMEIER, CAMERON L. RUTT, ROGER SAFFORD, BARNEY LONG, CULLEN HANKS & DANIEL J. LEBBIN
BIRDING SITES
33Â Â Birding Las Tangaras, Ecuador
HENRY STEVENS
BIRDING AT THE CUTTING EDGE
41  Seawatching’s eastern promise
RYAN IRVINE
NEW BOOK
49  The condor’s feather: filming South America’s birds
MICHAEL WEBSTER
FEATURE
59  The power of Brazil’s urban birdwatchers – and migrant flycatchers
KARLLA BARBOSA & ALEX JAHN
BIRDING AT THE CUTTING EDGE
63Â Â Birding Aruba: sea(birds), sand(pipers), wind(-driven vagrants) and a few endemic subspecies
THOMAS DONEGAN & BLANCA HUERTAS
SPLITS, LUMPS AND SHUFFLES
71Â Â Splits, lumps and shuffles
THOMAS S. SCHULENBERG
REVIEWS
78  The condor’s feather
RAYMOND JEFFERS
78Â Â The birds of St Vincent, the Grenadines and Grenada
JAMES LOWEN
NBC NOTCEBOARD
80Â Â NBC Noticeboard
CHRIS BALCHIN