Neotropical Birding 26

Welcome to Neotropical Birding 26

James Lowen

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Birding the ā€˜Montezuma Road’, central Colombia

John Cahill

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Loved or loathed: what makes some Neotropical birds more popular than others?

Alejandra Echeverri, Daniel Karp and Joseph Tobias

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Chasing Guatemala’s gold

Rob Ripma

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Complexities of the Amazon bird trade

Bernardo Ortiz-von Halle

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Do you really want to see this one?

Fabrice Schmitt

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A festival of birding at Lago de Yojoa, Honduras

Katinka Domen

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Providencia island in the Colombian Caribbean: X marks the spot for a treasure of endemic, migrant and vagrant birds

Thomas Donegan and Blanca Huertas

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Splits, lumps and shuffles

Thomas S. Schulenberg

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Mapping Chile’s birds: South America’s first atlas of breeding birds

Fernando Medrano, Rodrigo Barros, Heraldo V. Norambuena, Ricardo Matus and Fabrice Schmitt

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Photospot: Crescent-faced Antpitta

Nick Bray

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Reviews

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NBC Noticeboard

Chris Balchin

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