Leica are delighted to announce their new partnership with the North Yorkshire Turtle Dove Project. In celebration we have also launched the ‘Doodle a Dove’ competition where you could be in with the chance of winning a pair of the Leica Trinovid 10×32 HD-Plus binoculars. Read on to learn more […]
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Back in March 2020, a few days before the first lockdown began, I bought two pieces of equipment so I could start recording nocturnal avian migration by sound, an excellent way I thought to just keep myself entertained when bored. Little did I know that these items, a small Tascam […]
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In my role as The Urban Birder, I have been lucky enough to have visited countless locations around the globe and have had a brilliant time doing what I love most – watching birds. During May this year, I was honoured to have been invited to America to be a […]
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The African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) Secretariat and Leica Sportoptics have agreed to work together to further develop and strengthen waterbird monitoring across Africa and Eurasia. Under a three-year partnership, Leica Sportoptics will provide financial support to the Waterbird Fund hosted by Wetlands International as well as annual donations of optical […]
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Based at Walthamstow Wetlands, a reservoir complex within the lower Lee Valley, I joined the London Wildlife Trust in this role in 2021. To help explain some of the tasks I do, I will focus on two species that visit the UK during summer to breed. They also happen to […]
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From November 2022 to April 2023 Birdingplaces and Leica organized a Rate-Add-And-Win contest among birdwatchers. Any birder who added a birdwatching area to Birdingplaces or rated an area with one to five stars had a chance to win a pair of Leica Ultravid binoculars, a pair of Leica Trinovid binoculars […]
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When does spring start? Well, we officially enter spring on the day of the Spring Equinox; due to the position of the Earth’s orbit in relation to the sun…and all that astronomical stuff. But, I think for many, the start of spring is down to an individual’s experience. It is […]
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Have you gotten your daily dose of Ornitherapy today? Mounting research shows that when we step outside and into nature, positive chemical responses are activated within us. Cortisol, the hormone that flips into overdrive when we are stressed, starts to lower with just 20-30 minutes of immersing ourselves in the […]
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We are delighted to be supporting the St Albans Abbey’s first ever Peregrine Live Cam ! After their first breeding season last year, the peregrine falcon pair, Alban and Boudica, timed their first egg perfectly, laying on the first day of the camera going live to the public. Born and […]
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My first stop in this story was a shoot with Dr Alex Llopis at the breeding centre in Lleida, Spain. Alex is the coordinator of the Bearded Vulture Captive Breeding Network. I was nervous to finally be here and to film one of the first critical moments … the hatching. […]
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