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Costa Rica: You Only Live Twice

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Being fully inoculated with AstraZeneca, I understood that with a digital vaccination certificate, I do not need any further tests to enter Costa Rica – something to recheck again!! Update: with the vaccination certificate, I need no testing. Update: true. I planned to buy it at some airport, but that didn’t happen.

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Swarovski BTX – A new era in birdwatching

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Testing the BTX at Vlasina Lake, South-east Serbia (note the forehead rest and finder) As an amateur astronomer and astrophotographer I am quite familiar with binoviewers and employ them frequently for visual work with telescopes. BTX mounted on PTH tripod head at Beljarica, Serbia Now enough with all the praise and good stuff.

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Swarovski NL Pure – the Sexiest Binoculars Ever

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When I saw the NL Pure in a webinar for the first time, immediately – before the webinar ended, I asked my Swarovski sales rep for a pair to test. I kept them in my backpack until yesterday, didn’t want to hold them, to get any impressions… I wanted to test them as a tabula rasa (a clean slate). And today I did.

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Swarovski 8×30 CL Companion: Blue Birds in 3D

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The morning I first tested them was filled with migrating flocks of European Bee-eaters and their constant bubbling voices. A few weeks later, I was guiding a EuroBirdwatch event in Belgrade, Serbia. And all the time I was testing the CLs, I was wondering what the difference was between them and their big brother, the ELs.

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The Search for the Rarest Owl of India

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Now nearing 50 and duly lost in a mid-life crisis, Dragan Simic took to birding rather late – only half a lifetime ago, after successfully testing his inadequate skills in other life threatening activities, such as rock climbing and vertical caving.

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New Beat Writers on Thursday Mornings

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Now nearing 50 and duly lost in a mid-life crisis, Dragan Simic took to birding rather late – only half a lifetime ago, after successfully testing his inadequate skills in other life threatening activities, such as rock climbing and vertical caving.

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My Global Big (half-)Day, May 2022

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First, that new pair of bins for testing arrived, of which you will be reading in a due time, and two days later, the Global Big Day. While my Big Day was already over by mid-afternoon, it did help my mood and provided a lot of opportunities to test the new binoculars. And then things got a bit faster. Where to go?

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