Kit Reviews
We're not experts, just users. We have compared various different brands and types to see what suits our needs the most, as wildlife watchers.
Different situations require different solutions. If you are walking through the Himalayas, weight and size (or lack thereof) is very important; however if you are driving round the Kruger National Park in a large car, the larger the binoculars and lens the better. Children may not be so interested in latin names, and someone who occasionally looks out at their bird-table doesn't need a scientific guide to the birds of Europe.
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Sunagor, the World's most powerful binoculars
Sunagor Reader Offer Sunagor are offering readers and subscribers of www.wildlifeextra.com their fantastic 25 - 150 X 70 MEGA ZOOM binoculars for just £199.99 (Inc P & P) , RRP £399.99. To buy a pair of the world's most powerful binoculars at this special price, call Sunagor on 020 7722 1476 or email info@sunagor.com and quote WE1. Sunagor claim that their 25 - 150 X 70 MEGA ZOOM binoculars are the world's most powerful, and they are certainly the most powerful that we have ever comeRead full review »
Rare Birds Yearbook 2009
Rare Birds Yearbook 2009 updates the status of the 190 rarest birds in the world. For anyone with an interest in the conservation of the world's rarest birds, this book is a must. The book also helps the conservation of the species as £4 from each sale is donated towards saving the birds included.Read full review »
Bird Ringing
The BTO (British Trust for Ornithology) started bird ringing 100 years ago, in 1909. To date some 36 million birds have been ringed.Read full review »
Sunagor all weather binoculars
The first question I asked myself was "Why would I want binoculars designed to work in the rain?" Just stay indoors. Then I thought about it.Read full review »
The Encyclopaedia of Sharks
There are some weird and wonderful shapes and sizes. The Hammerhead we all know, but the extraordinary Goblin shark, with its hugely elongated nose (and even more unusually, with a liver that accounts for 25% of its bodyweight.), the prehistoric looking Frilled shark with trident teeth, to the tiny pygmy shark, which checks in at less than a foot long.Read full review »
A Life of Ospreys
Written by Roy Dennis. What Diane Fossey is to gorillas and David Shepherd is to Elephants, Roy Dennis is to ospreys.Read full review »
The Atlas of Endangered Species
120 pages of information about the who, what, where, how long and why of the worlds endangered species.Read full review »
Fruit - Edible, Inedible, Incredible
Available to readers of Wildlife Extra at £30 post-free (RRP £35). To order, telephone 01635 248833 or email info@papadakis.net and quote 'Wildlife Extra'.
This book is truly gobsmacking. The photography is truly spectacular, mostly very close up and set against black backgrounds which brings out the colours wonderfully.
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Wild Amazon - Nick Gordon
This is an important book. One of its kind, and although it is always easy to be pessimistic about this rainforest - his sentence about the Brazilian government's claim about timber production is truly frightening - Gordon eschews this doom mongering and remains upbeat.Read full review »
Daring to Fly - The wildlife paintings of Colin Woolf
Colin Woolf is one of Britain's best know wildlife artists, and the new book, written by his wife Jo, is a showcase of his work.Read full review »
Bob Books - Your wildlife in hardback
The rapidly increasing use of digital cameras has meant that the age-old delights of family photo albums is declining. Our photographs are now stored on computers, yet the desire for the emotive, tactile experience of photographs remains.Read full review »
Creatures Of The Deep Blue
Jonathan Bird is a professional underwater photographer who specialises in large marine mammals, Creatures of the Deep Blue is an underwater safari with Jonathan.
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The definitive field guide to the world's marine mammals.
10% off 'Whales, Dolphins and Seals', now £11.69.
Photos, illustrations, maps, hotspots and plenty of information, the best book in its field. Includes whales, dolphins, seals, sea-lions, Polar bears, sea otters, dugong and manatees.
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Photos, illustrations, maps, hotspots and plenty of information, the best book in its field. Includes whales, dolphins, seals, sea-lions, Polar bears, sea otters, dugong and manatees.
Click here to buy this book.
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Mobile mapping and GPS review
In our guide to UK nature reserves, we provide the grid location for all the reserves we list. However knowing that you need to get to TQ226768 isn't that straightforward for everyone, and especially with those reserves (most of them it seems) that are ½ mile off the road or in the back of beyond.Read full review »
Rare Birds Year Book 2008
If this book weren't so depressing, it would be one of the best books of the year.Read full review »
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Mammals of Madagascar, by Nick Garbutt
Madagascar is unique in many ways, but none more so than the mammals that are found there. Of the 123 species, at least 103 are found nowhere else.
This book is the most comprehensive guide that you need if visiting Madagascar.
10% off the RRP.Click here to buy this book.
This book is the most comprehensive guide that you need if visiting Madagascar.
10% off the RRP.Click here to buy this book.
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Safari in wildest Africa - Michael and Christine Denis-Huot
Michel and Christine Denis Huot spend at least six months a year in East Africa. They have produced several books in the past, and the latest, Safari in Wildest Africa , is a fantastic photographic record of the big game of East Africa.Read full review »
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Insects of Britain and Western Europe
Now you can tell the difference between a bed bug and a pine cone bug. Over 2300 illustrations and an instant guide as to whether you might see them in the UK or not.Read full review »
Vanishing Animals
This coffee table book is a pictorial journey through the world's most spectacular endangered animals.Read full review »
Albatross - Their world, their ways.
The albatross has to be the world's most photogenic bird species. Theri size, their plumage, their eyes and the locations that they are found in make them wonderful subjects, and yet some of the hardest and most inaccessible birds to capture on camera.Read full review »
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Birds of Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago provides some of the richest bird watching anywhere in the world. Despite having a combined area of just 4500 Kms, 470 bird species are found on the islands. A wide variety of habitats provides a very diverse setting for the spectalar birdlife.Read full review »
Woodland Trust 'Exploring Woodland' guides
Woodland Trust 'Exploring Woodland' guides
All of the following books can be bought online at the Woodlands Trust online shop.
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A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Japan and North East Asia
Quite unusual amongst bird guides in that it relies on photos, not illustrations, for all the birds. In fact most species merit 3 photos, and there are small distribution maps as well as brief notes giving a description, range, status in Japan, voice and similar species.Read full review »
