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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

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.

New Bahama Oriole Species Listed as Critically Endangered

Recently split from the Greater Antillean Oriole, the new endemic Bahama Oriole has a species population of less than 250.

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Site Updates

11 May 2012

New complete species accounts for Unspotted Saw-whet Owl (Aegolius ridgwayi), written by Paula L. Enríquez, M.C. Arizmendi, C. Rodríguez-Flores, and C. Soberanes-González; of Long-tailed Manakin (Chiroxiphia linearis), written by Alina Kanaski, Clara Stuligross, Jose Pareja, and Wendy Tori; and of Rufous-breasted Piculet (Picumnus rufiventris), written by Thomas S. Schulenberg and Hope Batcheler.

4 May 2012

New complete species accounts for Ocellated Turkey (Meleagris ocellata), written by Jon T. McRoberts, T. Rich, C. Rodríguez-Flores, C. Soberanes-González, and M.C. Arizmendi; for Yellow-bellied Tanager (Tangara xanthogastra), written by Stacey Virtue and Kevin J.Burns; for Russet-mantled Softtail (Thripophaga berlepschi), written by Thomas S. Schulenberg and Guy M. Kirwan; and for Fine-barred Piculet (Picumnus subtilis), written by Thomas S. Schulenberg and Guy M. Kirwan.

27 April 2012

New complete species accounts for Saffron-crowned Tanager (Tangara xanthocephala), written by Robert Iddings and Kevin J. Burns; for Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium brasilianum), written by Ray Larsen; for Peruvian Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium peruanum), written by Thomas S. Schulenberg and Hope Batcheller; and for Castelnau's Antshrike (Thamnophilus cryptoleucus), written by Thomas S. Schulenberg and Gary H. Rosenberg.

20 April 2012

New complete species accounts for Black-headed Trogon (Trogon melanocephalus), written by C. Riehl; for Bare-faced Ibis (Phimosus infuscatus),
written by Mateo Matamala, Mateo and the 2010-20 Ornithology Course, Universidad de los Andes (edited by Alejandra Echeverri, Iliana Medina, Erika Salazar, Viviana Alarcón, and C. Daniel Cadena); for Golden-naped Tanager (Tangara ruficervix), written by Laura Porturas and Kevin J. Burns; for Pectoral Sparrow (Arremon taciturnus), written by Simon Octavio Valdez-Juarez, Thomas S. Schulenberg, and Alvaro Jaramillo; and for Sao Francisco Sparrow (Arremon franciscanus), written by Thomas S. Schulenberg and Alvaro Jaramillo.