Important Bird Areas of the Neotropics: Argentina 
Adrián S. Di Giacomo and Eugenio G. Coconier
4
Birds and People in the Neotropics 
Mark Cocker and David Tipling
12
Xeno-canto: a 21st-century way to appreciate Neotropical bird song 
Bob Planqué and Willem-Pier Vellinga
17
Variation in Anthracothorax hummingbirds 
Robin Restall
25
Field identification of juvenile Empidonomus tyrants 
Thomas S. Schulenberg, Daniel F. Lane, John P. O’Neill and Douglas F. Stotz
31
The first biological explorations of SerranÃa de los YariguÃes, Colombia 
Thomas Donegan, Blanca Huertas, Jorge Avendaño, Elkin Briceño and Martin Donegan
38
Capital Birding: Buenos Aires 
Germán Pugnali
44
Birding Paraguay, the ‘forgotten heart’ of South America 
Paul Smith and Rob Clay
53
Community lodges and conservation through ecotourism: a new birding approach for Bolivia 
Bennett Hennessey
59
Observing the Bearded Wood Partridge: a rare and elusive species 
Jack Clinton Eitniear, Sergio H. Aquilarrodriguez and Juan Cornejo
67
Photospot: Strange-tailed Tyrant Alectrurus risora 
James Lowen, Alejandro G. Di Giacomo and Adrián S. Di Giacomo
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