Neotropical Birding 25

 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  

Feature 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).