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).
