Leica is delighted to have supported the making of ‘Skyward’ a short film directed by Jessica Bishopp about two young birdwatchers: Leica Ambassador Mya Bambrick and Arjun, as they manage the pressures they feel from the current climate breakdown and biodiversity crisis. The movie premiered at the Aspen Shortfest 2022, […]
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Your Birding Patch
In this guest blog, London Wildlife Trust Conservation Officer Peter Salter writes about what a birding patch is and how to find yours! Over the years, birding has advanced; from shooting and egg collecting in the 1800s, to the invention of binoculars that enabled birders to observe birds from a […]
Read MoreThe 100 most popular birdwatching places in Europe
On www.birdingplaces.eu you can find more than 5,000 bird watching areas in Europe, which have been described in detail by birders from all over Europe. And every day new areas are added. But what are the best places to visit? With the new Birdingplaces Top 100 pages you can tackle […]
Read MoreA chat with wildlife communicator and campaigner Lucy Lapwing
Wildlife Weirdo. Naturalist & nerd. Fighting for a wilder world. – This amalgamation of Lucy’s social media bio’s succinctly summarises her, but in this blog we got the opportunity to get to know Lucy a bit better and she’s as amazing as you would have thought… For those who don’t […]
Read MoreThe Urban Birder in Costa Rica
I must the only birder on the planet to have turned down the opportunity to visit this ecological paradise not once, not even twice but FIVE times! You may think that I needed my head tested. Perhaps you are right. But I am a principled man. My previous invitations invariably […]
Read MoreWalthamstow Wetlands – the perfect place to start birdwatching
We are proud to have partnered with the London Wildlife Trust, and supported them by funding the installation of seven new benches at their Walthamstow Wetlands site. As well as being a fully operational 211 hectare Thames Water reservoir site, which is the main source of water supply for 3.5 […]
Read MoreBirdwatchers Susana, Tom and Francesco win Leica Birdingplaces binoculars contest
From December 2021 to April 2022 Birdingplaces and Leica organized a winter contest among birdwatchers. Any birder who added a birdwatching area to www.Birdingplaces.eu had a chance to win high quality Leica binoculars. More than 11.000 birders visited the action page www.birdingplaces.eu/share-a-birding-area-and-win and within four months more than 1000 new […]
Read MoreSkomer Blog – Breeding Birds
It’s a time of firsts over here on the island: first chicks, first wildflowers, and the first days digging out the long-buried suncream! Our earliest breeding birds, ravens, were already building their nests when we returned to Skomer back in March. Now, two months on, adults ferrying food back-and-forth to […]
Read MoreReturn to Skomer Island
On 1st March, the Skomer Island team, including myself Leighton Newman, Skomer Warden, Ceris Aston, Assistant Warden, and Beth Thompson, Visitor Officer, boarded the Helen Claire and headed back to the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales’ Skomer Island for the start of the 2022 season. There was, as […]
Read MoreEvery birder loves the Common Crane
More than 4000 birders voted for their favourite migratory bird in the Bird Migration Competition that was organized by www.birdingplaces.eu. It was an exciting battle between the common swift and the common crane, but in the end the crane was the clear winner with 1302 votes. Below you can see […]
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