Neotropical Birding 19

Welcome to Neotropical Birding 19
James Lowen
2

Seabirds on the edge
Jez Bird, Sarah Crofts and Jerry Pierce
3

Forest loss in Latin American Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas
Stuart Butchart, Łukasz Tracewski, Graeme Buchanan and James Lowen
13

The importance of local bird guides
Sarah Stewart
20

Rich media = rich data: a new frontier for ornithology in the Neotropics and beyond
Ian Davies, Brian Sullivan and Jessie Barry
28

Splits, lumps and shuffles
Thomas S. Schulenberg
33

Revisiting Escalante’s terns: provenance of Sandwich (Cayenne) Terns on the Uruguayan coast
David T. Shoch and Adrián B. Azpiroz
44

A first for South America—by a whisker
Rob Clay
56

Seeing Puerto Rico’s specialities
Steven Huggins
59

From Agami to Monklet: birding the north Caribbean of Costa Rica
Juan Diego Vargas
65

Photospot: Norantea guianensis: a vine and its birds
Tanguy Deville and Johan Ingels
77

Club noticeboard
Chris Balchin
84

Book Review: Aves da Serra dos Órgãos e Adjacências: Guia de Campo (Birds of the Serra dos Órgãos and surrounding areas: field guide)
James Lowen
85

Book Review: Photo guide to the birds of Costa Rica
Christopher J. Sharpe
86