EDITORIAL
2 Welcome to Neotropical Birding 26
JAMES LOWEN
BIRDING SITE
3 Birding the ‘Montezuma Road’, central Colombia
John Cahill
FEATURE
15 Loved or loathed: what makes some Neotropical birds more popular than others?
Alejandra Echeverri, Daniel Karp and Joseph Tobias
BIRDING SITE
23 Chasing Guatemala’s gold
Rob Ripma
FEATURE
30 Complexities of the Amazon bird trade
Bernardo Ortiz-von Halle
BIRDING AT THE CUTTING EDGE
35 Do you really want to see this one?
Fabrice Schmitt
BIRDING SITE
42 A festival of birding at Lago de Yojoa, Honduras
Katinka Domen
BIRDING AT THE CUTTING EDGE
49 Providencia island in the Colombian Caribbean: X marks the spot for a treasure of endemic, migrant and vagrant birds
Thomas Donegan and BlancaHuertas
SPLITS, LUMPS AND SHUFFLES
56 Splits, lumps and shuffles
Thomas S. Schulenberg
NEW BOOK
63 Mapping Chile’s birds: South America’s first atlas of breeding birds
Fernando Medrano, Rodrigo Barros, Heraldo V. Norambuena, Ricardo Matus and Fabrice Schmitt
PHOTOSPOT
69 Photospot: Crescent-faced Antpitta
Nick Bray
REVIEWS
73 Birds of the West Indies
ROGER BARNES
74 Birds of Trinidad & Tobago
DAVID FISHER
75 Field guide to the birds of Colombia
and Guía ilustrada de la avifauna colombiana
CHRIS SHARPE
76 Atlas de las aves nidificantes de Chile
JAMES LOWEN
NBC NOTICEBOARD
77 NBC Noticeboard
Chris Balchin
FRONT COVER
Chestnut-bellied Flowerpiercer Diglossa gloriosissima, ‘Montezuma Road’, Risaralda, Colombia, November 2018 (James Lowen/ 8 jameslowen.com). Globally Endangered, this bird is one of the stars of John Cahill’s article on birding the ‘Montezuma Road’ (page 3).
