Neotropical Birding 25 Autumn 2019

Description

 Editorial

2       Welcome to Neotropical Birding 25

JAMES LOWEN

 Feature

3       A potted history of the Neotropical Bird Club

CHRIS BALCHIN

 Feature

11   Frontiers of knowledge: a quarter-century of Neotropical discovery

JAMES LOWEN, ALEXANDER LEES AND JOE TOBIAS

 Feature

33   The 25 best Neotropical bird books from the last 25 years

RAYMOND JEFFERS

 New Book

42   Then and now: a look at the ‘antpitta revolution’ of the past 25 years

HAROLD GREENEY

 Globally Threatened Bird

52   Junin Grebe: the survivor of Peru’s high Andean wetlands

ALAN CHAMORRO AND CONSTANTINO AUCCA

 Photospot

57   Three-wattled Bellbird: celebrating the bird behind the Neotropical Bird Club logo

GRAEME GREEN

 BIRDING at the cutting edge

63   A blue throat out of the blue

JUAN FREILE

 SPLITS LUMPS AND SHUFFLES

73   Splits, lumps and shuffles

Thomas S. Schulenberg

 Feature

80   The South American Bird Fair

james lowen

 Reviews

86   Antpittas and gnateaters

CHRISTOPHER J. SHARPE

87   Birds of Venezuela

DAVID FISHER

88   Birds of Nicaragua: a field guide

CHRISTOPHER J. SHARPE

90   Birds of Chile: a photo guide

JAMES LOWEN

91   Birds of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao: a site and field guide

BERT DENNEMAN

92   Les oiseaux de Guyane

JAMES LOWEN

92   Birds of Central America

CHRISTOPHER J. SHARPE

 NBC Noticeboard

94   NBC Noticeboard

CHRIS BALCHIN

 Front Cover

Adult male Three-wattled Bellbird Procnias tricarunculatus, Angeles Norte, San Ramón, Alajuela, Costa Rica, April 2016 (Jorge Chinchilla A.). The species on the Neotropical Bird Club logo is treated to an article by Graeme Green (page 57).