Choosing your binoculars Every birder needs binoculars. If you’re lucky you might be able to borrow some binoculars from someone in your family. If no “loaners” are available, you’ll want to buy (or ask your parents to buy) some binocs of your very own. Binoculars range in price from about $25 to more than $1,000, […]
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The best binoculars in the world are useless i. You know the story. You left them home because they were too heavy and you weren’t intending to go birding anyway. But birds can turn up anywhere, any time. A black-throated blue warbler might materialize in the mall’s parking-lot shrubbery. Or a tufted duck could wander
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When you are shopping around for an important purchase, it’s frustrating to find that the people who have the goods don’t know much about them. It’s even worse to discover that, although you’ve been given lots of information, it is misleading, confusing, or perhaps even dead wrong. The binocular business is no exception. There are
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Are your binoculars a pain in the neck? I mean that literally. After an hour of birding is your neck sore? Is there a dull ache in your shoulders? Do you feel a dead weight hanging from your neck? These common complaints can all be traced directly to your binoculars. Actually the cause of these
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