TABLE OF CONTENTS – NB31

GUEST EDITORIAL

2       Welcome to Neotropical Birding and Conservation

RAYMOND JEFFERS

BIRDING TALES

3       Mexico: birth of a bird book and beyond

STEVE N. G. HOWELL

BIRDING AT THE CUTTING EDGE

20   Airport birding in Latin America and the Caribbean

DANIEL J. LEBBIN

FEATURE

25   Fantastic lost birds and how you can help find them: an updated gap analysis for the Neotropical avifauna

JOHN C. MITTERMEIER, CAMERON L. RUTT, ROGER SAFFORD, BARNEY LONG, CULLEN HANKS & DANIEL J. LEBBIN

BIRDING SITES

33   Birding Las Tangaras, Ecuador

HENRY STEVENS

BIRDING AT THE CUTTING EDGE

41   Seawatching’s eastern promise

RYAN IRVINE

 

NEW BOOK

49   The condor’s feather: filming South America’s birds

MICHAEL WEBSTER

FEATURE

59   The power of Brazil’s urban birdwatchers – and migrant flycatchers

KARLLA BARBOSA & ALEX JAHN

BIRDING AT THE CUTTING EDGE

63   Birding Aruba: sea(birds), sand(pipers), wind(-driven vagrants) and a few endemic subspecies

THOMAS DONEGAN & BLANCA HUERTAS

SPLITS, LUMPS AND SHUFFLES

71   Splits, lumps and shuffles

THOMAS S. SCHULENBERG

REVIEWS

78   The condor’s feather

RAYMOND JEFFERS

78   The birds of St Vincent, the Grenadines and Grenada

JAMES LOWEN

 

NBC NOTCEBOARD

80   NBC Noticeboard

CHRIS BALCHIN