Did you know that my wife actually invented the binocular spotting scope? I lack proof of this but she did, honestly. As a scout...
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A little over a month ago I was hiking up a mountain path outside of Innsbruck, Austria, with birders from around the world. When...
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My best bird of the weekend was a Great Black-backed Gull, a rarity in a land-locked Serbia, with less than 10 observations so far....
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As some of you may be aware, I spend a lot of time on aeroplanes, working my way to exotic locations and then stumbling...
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It is not every day that a birder gets to play with a prototype scope made by one of the premiere optics companies in...
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I’ve been conferring recently with a friend who runs an eco-lodge about the prospect of upgrading the onsite optics array; in essence, she’s looking...
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