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Swarovski Skills Camp, or men and their toys

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The indoor workshop started with a Covid self-testing (where everyone was negative), followed by lectures on the Swarovski company, its ethos and products. The next day we had an outdoor workshop and a chance to test the toys. In comparison with ELs, EL 10s and NL 12s have the same field of view, as well as EL 8s and NL 10s.

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Birding with 12s: Swarovski NL Pure 12×42

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“I don’t know anyone else crazy enough to try 12s,” my friend answered when told that I am about to test NL Pure 12×42. With such a background, my decision to test the new birding frontier of Swarovski 12×42 extra-wide FOV binoculars didn’t appear strange at all – to me, at least. What do you think? Are 12s right for birding?

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Bird Photography Equipment – Canon EF 300 f/4 L IS Macro

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I have had a couple of weeks of testing this configuration and further testing revealed some additional amazing results that I did not expect. I came across this while testing the 300 with kenko 2X TC and there we no birds to shoot. In this test the camera has been brought as close a possible to the subject.

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Not So Thrilled About Pelagic Birding

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In comparison, what I call a true pelagic trip was one that had as ultimate prize storm petrels, shearwaters, jaegers, skuas, tropicbirds, albatrosses, and other unexpected surprises seldom seem near the coast. Pomarine Jaeger juvenile!, Elliot’s Storm-petrel at 10 am!

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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.2

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If they are "only" animals, if they are beasts which abstract not, then my comparison is a piece of sentimental foolishness. These chimps are healthy and well-fed. But chimpanzees can abstract. Like other mammals, they are capable of strong emotions. They have certainly committed no crimes.

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More Gadgets For Birders With an iPhone

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Tilted to the horizontal the display offers 7 seconds of scrolling spectrogram analysis on the iPhone screen (I’ve not had the opportunity to test it on an iPad yet and it may be greater on iPad).

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How The Bird Got Its Beak

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Similar comparisons can be made with other bird features such as how their hips work. In order to test the mechanism, we used inhibitors of both pathways to replicate in chicken the ancestral amniote expression. This permitted the identification of an autapomorphic median gene expression region in Aves.