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#gobirding
!!! Charles Posts + Local Youth Birding Club / B

Through Astrid’s Eyes:

A New Generation of Birders in the Lofoten Islands

#gobirdingConservation

Reading time: 5 min.

!!! AX Visio - and beyond_Kristen Harrison

Birding Kenya to Galapagos with AX Visio

Birding the World, One Unforgettable Moment at a Time

AX Visio#gobirding#beyondseeing

Reading time: 5 min.

!!! AX Visio: Anwendung Südafrika – Vogelberingung / Danielle McKenney

Danielle McKenney's Journey with AX Visio

From field tests to field work

AX Visio#gobirding
Reading time: 6 min.
!!! 2025_AnaPaulaOxom_LeanderKhil_Guatemala / B

Ana Paula Oxom

a birder in Guatemala

NL Pure#gobirding
Reading time: 4 min.
Dan Brown birding Indonesia // headerimage

Unexplored seabirding in Indonesia

Unlock Indonesia’s untold seabirding treasures

#gobirding
Reading time: 4 min.
!!!A Bornean Leafbird in flight - Surya Ramachandran and Vedant Thite

Exploring Borneo’s Hidden Wildlife

From Rainforest Canopies to Riverbanks

#gobirdingNL PureTravel

Reading time: 5 min.

Charles Post Hiking in Lofoten 03

Birdwatching Lofoten’s Fall Migration

An Arctic Spectacle

#generationnature#gobirding
Reading time: 7 min.
#gobirdingvlog Episode 6: Austrian Alps- Bergpieper / Water pipit by Leander Khil

by Leander Khil

#gobirdingvlogs

#gobirding
Reading time: 15 min.
Brydon Gannets - Norhtern Gannets

Observing Northern Gannets at Hermaness, UK

A truly epic experience

#gobirdingATX / STX / BTX#seetheunseen
Reading time: 3 min.
Kittiwakes Flying Lofoten

An artic immersion and the imperative of preservation

Kittiwakes on the Lofoten Islands

#generationnature#gobirding

Reading time: 5 min.

K24 Cuban tody (Todus multicolor) 14169993

5 questions for “casual birder” Penny Robinson

Always birding

NL Pure#gobirdingCitizen Science
Reading time: 3 min.
Make your garden a bird’s paradise B/ - Kohlmeise LK

What can you do to support wild birds?

Make your garden a bird’s paradise

#gobirding#gardenbirding
Reading time: 3 min.
Birdsong: a free concert with special meaning B/ - Rotkehlchen LK

a free concert with special meaning

Birdsong

#gobirding#gardenbirding
Reading time: 3 min.
Always hungry – young birds and their (exhausted) parents B/ - Blaumeise Khil2

young birds and their (exhausted) parents

Always hungry

#gobirding#gardenbirding

Reading time: 3 min.

K21 Birding Colorado DSC5802-HDR-Pano web

Discover a virtual birding world

World of Wings

NL Pure#gobirdingAll about optics
Reading time: 5 min.
#gobirdingvlogs by Leander Khil B/ - #gobirdingvlog Episode 7: Spring Bird Sounds Schilfrohrsänger by Leander Khil

6 fascinating facts about birds by Rick Bateman

A Bird’s Year

#gobirding#fortheloveofnature
Reading time: 4 min.
Birds on a lake Miracle of Migration ID 1247879

The secret world of Migratory Birds

THE MIRACLE OF MIGRATION

#gobirdingCitizen ScienceNL Pure
Reading time: 10 min.
!!!Birding with Frederic Lamouroux - Discovering flamingos in the Camargue - header image

Discovering flamingos in the Camargue

Birding in France

NL Pure#gobirdingATX / STX / BTX

Reading time: 4 min.

Gudrun and her daughter Ronja

Gudrun Tiefenbach-Kaufmann about her favorite places

From her parents’ garden to the world

#gobirdingNL Pure
Reading time: 3 min.
The fun of exploration – how the dG turns everyone into a wildlife expert B/ ID:1362766

How to share your checklist with the

Team SWAROVSKI OPTIK

#gobirding
Reading time: 2 min.
Bluethroat © Brian Calk ML 182455581

Let technology help you to identify birds by song.

Smart Sound ID

dGCitizen Science#gobirding
Reading time: 3 min.
K23 mauritius images M220GY CMYK ID:1796410

Dive into exotic natural soundscapes.

Avian sonatas

#gobirdingdGCitizen Science

Reading time: 5 min.

broad billed hummingbird arizona

Tropical Birding Travel Destinations

See you there!

Travel#onewithnature#gobirding
Reading time: 3 min.
Leander Khil close-up with the compact SWAROVSKI OPTIK ATC spotting scope

Birding in Norway with the compact ATC spotting scope

Exploring the far north

ATC / STC#gobirdingTravel
Reading time: 4 min.
!!!Nizzana landscape (c) by Jonathan Meyrav

Discover the top 5 birding spots in Israel

Winter birding in Israel

NL Pure#gobirdingTravel
Reading time: 4 min.
!!!Western Gull (Larus occidentalis) over the waves by Charles Post

Winter Birding on California’s Point Reyes Peninsula

Shorebirds in winter mode

NL Pure#gobirdingNature's treasures

Reading time: 4 min.

Purple-crowned Fairy by Glenn Bartley

Bright birds (part II) – a photo selection

Add some color to your day

#gobirdingNL Pure
Reading time: 3 min.
Violet-crowned Woodnymph - Glenn Bartley

Bright birds (part I) – a photo selection

Beautiful colors for your day

#gobirdingNL PureATC / STC
Reading time: 3 min.
!!!Male Mealy Redpoll by Brydon Thomason - Autumn birding with the 115-mm objective module

Autumn with the 115-mm objective module

Observing redpolls

#gobirdingATX / STX / BTX#seetheunseen
Reading time: 4 min.
Flamingos in Bahia Hondita in the Guajira peninsula of northern Colombia. 2AE612D

The Essential Colombian Hotspots

Andes to Amazon:

Travel#gobirding#mywildlife

Reading time: 4 min.

!!! My birding patch - Camilla Dreef /B

Camilla Dreef: Research & Storytelling Belong Together

BIRD CONSERVATION THROUGH RESEARCH & COMMUNICATION

#seetheunseen#gobirding
Reading time: 4 min.
Why birds matter by BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL B/ - Closer Birding-Magazin, 2020, Oystercatchers in Flight, ID:1399400

Celebrating BirdLife International's centenary

100 years of saving species

#gobirdingCooperation#fortheloveofnature
Reading time: 4 min.
!!!Brydon Thomason tested the SWAROVSKI OPTIK 115-mm objective module

Spring on the Shetland Isles

with the 115-mm objective module

ATX / STX / BTX#gobirding#seetheunseen
Reading time: 3 min.
!!!, Uganda, RickBateman

Abia Atukwase

No distance too far

Travel#gobirding

Reading time: 4 min.

!!!My birding patch: Gigi Sahlstrand looking through binoculars in bosnia herzegovina

Gigi Sahlstrand from Sweden shares her story

The big bird adventure

ATX / STX / BTX#gobirdingTravel
Reading time: 3 min.
Albufera Nature Park near Valencia, Spain

Yanina Maggiotto

Living and birding by the lagoon

NL Pure#gobirding
Reading time: 4 min.
NL Pure 32 42 Colorado B

Hannah Floyd

The owl and the juniper

NL Pure#gobirding
Reading time: 4 min.
CLOSER 2022 - COLOMBIA - Sunset over the rolling lush green hills of the Antioquia landscape near Santa Fe, just outside the city of Medellin, Colombia

Finding Hope and a Future in Ecotourism

COLOMBIA

Travel#gobirding#mywildlife

Reading time: 5 min.

Brydon Thomason: My Year with the 115 - Winter / photo 1

Birding in winter with the 115-mm objective module

Birding at the Shetland Islands

ATX / STX / BTX#fortheloveofnature#gobirding
Reading time: 4 min.
Close up: European Winter Waterfowl - Part 2 B/ - Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) by Leander Khil

European Winter Waterfowl - Part 2

Close up :

#gobirding
Reading time: 4 min.
Close up: European Winter Waterfowl - Part 1 B/ - Common Pochard (Aythya ferina) by Leander Khil

European Winter Waterfowl - Part 1

CLOSE UP :

EL#gobirdingATX / STX / BTX
Reading time: 3 min.
!!!Corey Finger tried the 115 in New York City B/ - Corey, Gabriel and Grace - New York USA

Corey Finger tried the 115 in New York City

The big scope in the Big Apple

ATX / STX / BTX#seetheunseen#gobirding

Reading time: 4 min.

Chestnut-mandibled Toucan - Costa Rica by Glenn Bartley

Global Bird Weekend 2021

A great feat for birds worldwide

#gobirding#fortheloveofnature
Reading time: 3 min.
dG, Donauauen, /B

Global Birding

United by the love of birds

#gobirding
Reading time: 5 min.
Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler

A new birding era for Sarah Toner

The NL Pure

NL Pure#onewithnature#gobirding
Reading time: 3 min.
Among experts: Jonathan Meyrav und Yoav Perlman trying the brand-new NL Pure 12x42 - main image

Jonathan Meyrav & Yoav Perlman trying the NL Pure 12x42

Among experts

NL Pure#onewithnature#gobirding

Reading time: 2 min.

Brian Sullivan tested our 115-mm objective module B/ - Brian Sullivan

Brian Sullivan tested our 115-mm objective module

bigger, brighter, better

ATX / STX / BTX#gobirding#seetheunseen
Reading time: 4 min.
broad billed hummingbird arizona

Tropical Birding Travel Destinations

See you there!

Travel#onewithnature#gobirding
Reading time: 3 min.
Graylag Goose

The international bird airport at Zwin Nature Park

The international bird airport at Zwin Nature Park, Belgium

ST Vista#gobirdingTravel
Reading time: 4 min.
Both Kestrels in the nest

An interview with Mario Kreuzer

Kestrels never read the script

ATX / STX / BTX#gobirding#urbanwildlife

Reading time: 10 min.

The Gib Buzzard conundrum ID1535960

By Dick Forsman

The Gib Buzzard conundrum

ATX / STX / BTX#gobirdingCitizen Science
Reading time: 6 min.
Islands spread in the sea

In paradise

with birds-of-paradise

#gobirdingTravel#mywildlife
Reading time: 5 min.
Why birds matter by BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL B/ - Closer Birding-Magazin, 2020, Crested Ibis ID:1399417

BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL

Why birds matter

#gobirdingSustainability#fortheloveofnature
Reading time: 3 min.
Thick-billed Parrot

A magical encounter with the endangered

Thick-billed Parrot

#gobirding#onewithnatureNL Pure

Reading time: 2 min.

Green-tailed Sunbird

Surya Ramachandran

Birding in Singalila National Park

#gobirding#onewithnature
Reading time: 4 min.
Western Ghats India, NL Pure

A Naturalist’s Diary during India’s Covid crisis

LOCKED DOWN AT THE EDGE OF THE WESTERN GHATS

NL Pure#mywildlife#gobirding
Reading time: 4 min.
!!! Bird Survey, EURAC

Julia Strobl, Eurac Research

Forward-looking research in South Tyrol

#gobirding#fortheloveofnature
Reading time: 3 min.
Hide and See Kongsfjord bird hide wind shelter - sign Tormod Amundsen

My Arctic birding patch

HIDE & SEE

design#gobirding

Reading time: 5 min.

Search for the King Eider B - A male King Eider in eclipse plumage distinguished by the ‘sails’, yellow lobe and bill shape.

MARK COLLIER AND THE 115-MM OBJECTIVE MODULE

Search for the King Eider

ATX / STX / BTX#gobirding#seetheunseen
Reading time: 3 min.
115, Mark Collier

Mark Collier on Texel

Maximising the day with the 115-mm objective module

#gobirding#seetheunseenATX / STX / BTX
Reading time: 4 min.
The 115-mm objective module in Texas 1/3 – birding at Hazel Bazemore Park B/ - Clay Taylor ATX 115-mm

The 115-mm objective module in Texas 1/3 –

birding at Hazel Bazemore Park

#seetheunseenATX / STX / BTX#gobirding
Reading time: 4 min.
The 115-mm objective module in Texas 2/3 – birding at Guadalupe Mountains National Park B/ - Joel Simon and Clay Taylor with the 115-mm objective module

The 115-mm objective module in Texas 2/3 –

birding at Guadalupe Mountains National Park

#seetheunseenATX / STX / BTX#gobirding

Reading time: 4 min.

115-mm objective module Clay Taylor 3/3 header image

Clay Taylor tested the 115-mm objective module

The 115-mm ob­jec­ti­ve mo­du­le in Te­xas 3/3 – Te­xas Gulf Co­ast Bir­ding

ATX / STX / BTX#gobirding#seetheunseen
Reading time: 3 min.
115, Nils van Duivendijk

Nils van Duivendijk’s first impressions of

the 115-mm objective module

ATX / STX / BTX#gobirding
Reading time: 3 min.
Greater Roadrunner

Birding travel reimagined

Maximize the experience, minimize the risk

Travel#gobirding
Reading time: 3 min.
American Goldfinch

KIMBERLY KAUFMAN

BIRDING IS MY LIFE

#gobirding#fortheloveofnature

Reading time: 4 min.

115 Bruce Webb

Bruce Webb tried the new 115-mm objective module

A new era of extreme resolution and brightness

#gobirding#seetheunseenATX / STX / BTX
Reading time: 3 min.
ATX65 CCT CTH EL women birding ID 1210528

Global Bird Weekend 2020

Great achievements and many smiles

#gobirding#fortheloveofnature
Reading time: 3 min.
Bird nests – versatile cradles B/ - Waldohreule LK

Bird nests

versatile cradles

#gobirding#gardenbirding
Reading time: 3 min.
Birding at your doorstep – discover the birdlife close to you B/ - Buchfink LK

Birding at your doorstep

discover the birdlife close to you

#gobirding#gardenbirding

Reading time: 3 min.

2 women - feather - sitting - forest - meadow - K19 dG andreschoenherr DSC8815 CMYK (ID1362742)

Birding basics 1

How to identify birds

#staycuriousdG#gobirding
Reading time: 3 min.
Social Birder PCT CCT PTH CTH EL CLC ATX85 65 BTX ID 1210313

Birding basics 2

Birding tips in the field

#staycuriousdG#gobirding
Reading time: 3 min.
shorebirds flying - Germany - North Sea coast - gulls - waders - Fuhlehörn-Deutschland 2010 061

Birding basics 3

Taking the next step in birding

#staycuriousdG#gobirding
Reading time: 2 min.
Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler

Clay Taylor

North American Wood Warblers

#gobirding

Reading time: 1 min.

Bird songs: music to your ears B/ - © Andrew Spencer / Cornell Lab of Ornithology

music to your ears

Bird songs

#gobirding
Reading time: 3 min.
Stieglitze c Manfred Polansky

Good to know

Feeding birds in winter

#gardenbirding#gobirding
Reading time: 3 min.
Goldcrests

Dan Brown

Autumn Birding in Scotland

NL Pure#onewithnature#gobirding
Reading time: 4 min.
A joint adventure: Mark and Nils seawatching with the 115-mm objective module B/ - MPC-Nils-BTX-11

A joint adventure:

Mark and Nils seawatching with the 115-mm objective module

#seetheunseenATX / STX / BTX#gobirding

Reading time: 5 min.

A Black-browed Albatross at RSPB Bempton Cliffs: Craig Thomas testing the 115 objective module.

An unforgettable experience:

A Black-browed Albatross at RSPB Bempton Cliffs

ATX / STX / BTX#gobirding
Reading time: 3 min.
An Island of Biodiversity ID1399387

Wild wolves up close -

#mywildlife in Brazil

#gobirding#mywildlifeTravel
Reading time: 3 min.
An Island of Biodiversity ID1406066

for BRAZIL

READY

#gobirding#mywildlifeTravel
Reading time: 3 min.
An Island of Biodiversity ID1399395

THE SANTUÁRIO DO CARAÇA IS A MAGICAL ISLAND

An Island of Biodiversity

#mywildlife#gobirding

Reading time: 10 min.

Spotting Scopes Tips Birding Tripod BTX ID:1208824

The perfect combinations

Two tripod packages for a firm footing

Spotting Scope Accessories#gobirding
Reading time: 2 min.