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
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
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
CHRIS BALCHIN