Neotropical Birding 24 Spring 2019

Description

Editorial

2      Welcome to Neotropical Birding 24

JAMES LOWEN

BIRDING SITE

3      Seeing Rufous-crowned Antpitta (and more!) at Mashpi Shungo reserve, Ecuador

ALEJANDRO SOLANO-UGALDE

BIRDING SITE

9      Birding Intervales, Brazil

FRED Tavares

BIRDING SITE

19  Amazon lodges in Ecuador: an overview

Sam Woods, Scott Olmstead and José Illanes

SPLITS LUMPS AND SHUFFLES

31  Splits, lumps and shuffles

Thomas S. Schulenberg

Feature

40  Acapulco to Veracruz – home to Mexico’s better endemics!

RAYMOND JEFFERS

Feature

48  The 2018 IUCN Red List in the Neotropics

James Lowen, Hannah Wheatley, Claudia Hermes, Ian Burfield and David Wege

Globally Threatened Bird

55  The Grey-bellied Comet – threatened enigma of the Peruvian Andes

Jeremy Flanagan

NEOTROPICAL NOTEBOOK

62  Neotropical Notebook

COMPILED BY James Lowen

CONSERVATION AWARDS

71  NBC Conservation Awards update

Compiled by ChrisTOPHER J. Sharpe and Rob Clay

NBC NOTICEBOARD

78  NBC Noticeboard

CHRIS BALCHIN

FRONT COVER

Rufous-crowned Antpitta Pittasoma rufoplieatum, Mashpi Shungo, Pichincha, Ecuador, January 2017 (Pete Morris/Birdquest).