Neotropical Birding 23 Autumn 2018

Description

Editorial

2       Welcome to Neotropical Birding 23

JAMES LOWEN

Birding at the Cutting Edge

3       The ultimate trek? Seeing Blue-bearded Helmetcrest in Colombia

STEPHAN LORENZ

Feature

13   The flamingos, the fable and the fair

JAMES LOWEN

Globally Threatened Bird

14   Sympathy for the grebes: Hooded Grebe conservation programme update (2011–2017)

Ignacio Roesler, Laura Fasola and Patrick Buchanan

Feature

25   New eyes on the Neotropics

Josh Jones

BIRDING SITE

33   Seeing Cuba’s endemic birds and other specialities

Christopher Sharpe

New Book

47   New bird species from the Neotropics: 50 years of discovery

David Brewer

SPLITS LUMPS AND SHUFFLES

55   Splits, lumps and shuffles

Thomas S. Schulenberg

Globally Threatened Bird

61   Last call for the Peruvian Plantcutter

Jeremy Flanagan

Feature

68   An overview of bird records committees in the Neotropics

Juan Freile, Alejandro Solano Ugalde, Martyn Kenefick, Alexander Lees, Vítor Piacentini, Luis Sandoval, Thomas Valqui, Fernando Angulo-Pratolongo, Jhonathan Miranda, Olivier Claessens and Christopher Sharpe

Club noticeboard

76   Club Noticeboard

CHRIS BALCHIN

FRONT COVER

Male Araripe Manakin Antilophia bokermanni rain-bathing at Arajara Park, Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil, on 1 December 2016 (Rob Hutchinson/Birdtour Asia). One of many new Neotropical species to feature in David Brewer’s article (page 47–54).