Books
A History of Cornish Ornithology
Tony Langford reviews a new comprehensive history of birding in one of Britain's most productive counties.
01/04/2018
Reviews
Books, optics, photographic equipment, accessories and much more besides, read detailed reviews by our team of experts of everything to do with birds, birding and wildlife in general.
Books
The New Neotropical Companion
Nárgila Moura finds a revised edition of the classic ecological guide to South America "extremely useful".
26/03/2018
Telescopes
Vanguard Endeavor HD 82A telescope
Vanguard’s redesigned front-runner telescope has all the looks, but how does it measure up in the field? Mike Alibone puts the model...
26/03/2018
Tripods
Vanguard VEO 2 235AP tripod
Could this compact and lightweight tripod from Vanguard solve the perennial problem of whether to take a scope and tripod on a birding...
17/03/2018
Tripods
Manfrotto 290 Light, Befree Live and Befree Carbon tripods
Manfrotto’s Befree range has been designed for maximum portability. Mike Alibone tests two of them alongside one of the manufacturer’s more...
12/03/2018
Books
The Birder's Guide to Africa
Martin Woodcock finds a new general guide to Africa's avifauna both useful and unusual.
04/03/2018
Books
Birds of Bolivia Field Guide
Alex Lees dives into the first-ever field guide for a South American country with the sixth-largest avifauna in the world.
24/02/2018
Books
Birds of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East: a Photographic Guide
Andy Stoddart reviews an ambitious new photo field guide to the birds of the Western Palearctic.
17/02/2018
Journals & reports
Fair Isle Bird Observatory Report for 2016
Steve Holliday dissects the latest annual report from one of Britain's premier bird observatories.
13/02/2018
Books
The Robin: a Biography
Rob Hume finds much to love in Stephen Moss's populist monograph on the common or garden Robin.
11/02/2018
Binoculars
Canon 10x32 IS III binocular
Does Canon’s upgraded image-stabilisation binocular hit the spot? Mike Alibone takes a look at one of the refined new models.
04/02/2018
Books
Farming and Birds
A new volume in Collins's monolithic New Naturalist series is exhaustively authoritative, writes Rob Hume.
20/01/2018
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