For more than fifty years, experts from Iran’s Department of Environment have been conducting mid-winter waterbird censuses across the country. This long-running monitoring program has played a crucial role in understanding population trends among migratory waterbirds that occur in the country. However, recent improvements in equipment, including through the donation […]
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From November 2023 to April 2024 Birdingplaces and Leica organized a nice winter contest among birdwatchers. Any birder who added a birdwatching area to Birdingplaces had a chance to win a pair of Leica binoculars. More than 65.000 birders visited the action page and over 1200 new birdwatching areas have […]
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Two of the Leica Trinovid binoculars have been handed over to wildlife managers in the Republic of Chad, a landlocked country in north-central Africa, which is of vital importance for migratory waterbirds due to its diverse and expansive wetland ecosystems. Famous wetlands such as Lake Chad and the floodplains of […]
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Leica binoculars from the legendary Trinovid product line have made their way to key sites in Africa and Eurasia in support of international efforts to monitor and conserve migratory waterbirds. The high-precision optical equipment is now helping to empower a network of international experts committed to monitoring and conserving migratory […]
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The Uzbekistan Society for the Protection of Birds (UzSPB) has recently received one of the donated Leica Trinovid binoculars, boosting their efforts in waterbird monitoring. This new equipment represents a considerable upgrade from the outdated binoculars previously used by the organization’s ornithologists. The UzSPB is a young, developing, but one […]
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One of the donated Leica binoculars has found its way to the lush, biodiverse island of Príncipe, which is part of the small island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe, located in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western coast of Central Africa. Renowned for its stunning natural beauty, the […]
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One of the ten donated Leica Trinovid binoculars has made its way to Kenya, to support the waterbird monitoring work being done under the umbrella of the National Museums of Kenya (NMK). The Museum together with Nature Kenya and international partners has been leading the waterbird census in Kenya for […]
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What does the Apollo 11 moon landing have to do with migratory waterbirds in Africa? Well, the link can be found in the optical equipment that was used during the successful mission to the moon in 1969 and the high-precision optical equipment that will soon be used by a network […]
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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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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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