Neotropical Birding 26 Spring 2020

Description

 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).