EDITORIAL
2	Welcome to Neotropical Birding 30
JAMES LOWEN
 MEMORIES
3	Remembering David Fisher  (1954–2021)
RAYMOND JEFFERS & CHRIS BALCHIN
 GLOBALLY THREATENED BIRD  
6	Saving Cherry-throated Tanager Nemosia rourei
DANIEL BRANCH & LIA KAJIKI
 BIRDING SITES
13	Birding Vale do Café, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
DANIEL MELLO, GABRIEL MELLO & RODOLFO ELLER
 BIRDING AT THE CUTTING EDGE  
26	Passive acoustic monitoring of Neotropical birds
OLIVER METCALF
 BIRDING AT THE CUTTING EDGE  
35	Raptor migration across South America
MATÍAS A. JUHANT
 REVIEWS
52	Birds of Puerto Rico and  the Virgin Islands 
STEVEN HUGGINS
53	Seabirds: the new identification guide  
JAMES LOWEN
54	A quest for waders  
JAMES LOWEN
54	Naturalized parrots  of the world   
JAMES LOWEN
 FEATURE
55	The quest for 1,000 birds: a ‘big year’  of birding in Central America
CHRIS FISCHER
 SPLITS, LUMPS AND SHUFFLES
65	Splits, lumps and shuffles
THOMAS S. SCHULENBERG
 BIRDING AT THE CUTTING EDGE  
75	The false acrobat: the puzzling case  of Helmeted Manakins
LIA KAJIKI
 NBC NOTICEBOARD
79	NBC Noticeboard
Chris Balchin

	
Blue-winged Macaw Primolius macarana (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2017; Daniel Mello: 8 irmaosmello.com.br   @irmaosmello_rio). This Near Threatened species appears in the article on birding the Vale do Café, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by Daniel Mello et al. (p13). Look for it along the approach road to Parque Natural Municipal do Açude da Concórdia HQ, Valença.