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Orange-breasted Falcon

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Silver-throated Tanager

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Scarlet-thighed Dacnis

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Tiny Hawk

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Azure-hooded Jay

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American Pygmy Kingfisher

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Purple-throated Mountain-gem

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Red-legged Thrush

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Inca Tern

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Red-legged Honeycreeper

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Neotropical News

Flickr Group Photos Now Live in Image Gallery

Thousands of new images are now visible for most species cataloged in Neotropical Birds Online, thanks to a slideshow gallery ported into each account that scrolls through images found in our Neotropical Birds Online flickr group.

4000+ Species Have Account Information! - 28 October 2011

We've reached a major milestone: today we have added information for every single species of bird in the Neotropics. Anyone can now search for any Neotropic species and find life history data, an audio sample and a distribution map.

Watch the Only Known Footage of Imperial Woodpecker

In a new study published in The Auk, Cornell Lab scientists have analyzed the only known footage of the Imperial Woodpecker.

Recent Greater Ani reports from the Caribbean.

On October 26th, Lisa Yntema and Carol Cramer-Burke of the US Virgin Islands observed and photographed a Greater Ani in the White Mangroves of Rust-op-Twist Pond on St. Croix.

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Site Updates

17 May 2013

New complete species accounts for Streamertail (Trochilus polytmus), contributed by Julia Brokaw; for Magpie Tanager (Cissopis leverianus), contributed by Marguerite C. Threlkeld and Kevin J. Burns; for Green Thorntail (Discosura conversii), contributed by Thomas S. Schulenberg; and for Ecuadorian Piculet (Picumnus sclateri), contributed by Thomas S. Schulenberg and Carolyn W. Sedgwick.

10 May 2013

New complete species accounts for Olivaceous Thornbill (Chalcostigma olivaceum), contributed by Thomas S. Schulenberg, and Carolyn W. Sedgwick; for Rainbow-bearded Thornbill (Chalcostigma herrani), contributed by Thomas S. Schulenberg, and Carolyn W. Sedgwick; for Colima Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium palmarum), contributed by Thomas S. Schulenberg; and for White-bearded Manakin (Manacus manacus), contributed by Lindsey Tu, Casey McCabe, and Wendy Tori.

3 May 2013

New complete species accounts for Large-footed Finch (Pezopetes capitalis), contributed by Justin Baldwin; for Yellow-green Finch (Pselliophorus luteoviridis), contributed by Justin Baldwin; for Sumichrast's Wren (Hylorchilus sumichrasti), contributed by C. Soberanes-González, C. Rodríguez-Flores, M.C. Arizmendi, and Thomas S. Schulenberg; and for Cinnamon-tailed Sparrow (Peucaea sumichrasti), contributed by M.F. Ramos-Ordoñez, C. Rodríguez-Flores, C. Soberanes-González, M.C. Arizmendi, B. Behrstock, and Thomas S. Schulenberg.

19 April 2013

New complete species accounts for Cuban Bullfinch (Melopyrrha nigra), contributed by Xochitl Ayón Güemes, Edwin Ruiz Rojas, and Eduardo E. Iñigo-Elias; for Scaled Antpitta (Grallaria guatimalensis), contributed by Harold F. Greeney, A. Rivera-Ortíz, C. Rodríguez-Flores, C. Soberanes-González, and M.C. Arizmendi; for Fork-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus savana), contributed by A.E. Jahn and D.T. Tuero; for Black-girdled Barbet (Capito dayi), contributed by Thomas S. Schulenberg; and for Rufous-necked Puffbird (Malacoptila rufa), contributed by Thomas S. Schulenberg and Guy M. Kirwan.