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
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.
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
Telescopes
Celestron C5 spotting scope
Top image quality is not restricted to state-of-the-art optical technology, as Mike Alibone discovered when he ventured out with something...
15/01/2018
Books
Mozart’s Starling
Rob Hume is charmed by a personal memoir of birdsong, written from an American perspective.
06/01/2018
Books
Birds of Borneo
Neil Bowman says this new edition of this essential field guide to the region covers every species well, with all the new taxonomic changes.
24/12/2017
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