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The UK Top 10

These are the 10 areas birders have rated the highest in the UK. Are you missing any of your favourite birding areas or do you think an area deserves a higher (or lower) listing? Look up the area on the map of Birdingplaces and rate the area yourself!

The 100 best birding spots in Europe

Our top list of birdwatching areas - the Birdingplaces Top 100 - is online! This ranking shows the best birding areas in Europe according to birdwatchers and makes it easier to find the birding areas that are most worth a visit.

Anne wins Leica Trinovid on Dutch Birdfair

The Landelijke Dag is the biggest birdfair in the Netherlands and was held this year on Saturday 26 November. Birdingplaces was present with a stand and organized a giveaway. Anne Schumacher was drawn as the winner of a pair of Leica Trinovid 10x32 HD binoculars.

Rate 5 and win Leica binoculars!

The new Leica and Birdingplaces winter win-promotion has started! New this year is that you can win a Leica Ultravid BR 10x25 binoculars by rating five areas on Birdingplaces with 1 to 5 stars.

New: Birdingplaces Support Shop

In our webshop you can buy T-shirts and other items with nice bird designs. With buying an item in the Birdingplaces Support Shop you help to support Birdingplaces, the free guide for birdwatching in Europe.

Tom, Susana and Francesco win Leica binoculars

In december 2021 we started a winter contest together with Leica. Any birder who added a birdwatching area had a chance to win high quality Leica binoculars. Tom from England, Francesco from Italy and Susana from Spain were the lucky winners.

New: Add your images to a birdingplace

You can now add images of birds (or landscapes) to any birdingplace. Not only to areas you have added yourself but also to those of other users. So if you have beautiful bird pictures or a nice atmospheric photo of the landscape, you can now add them to an area.

Jalle wins Leica Telescope with vote for Common Crane

More than 4000 birders voted for their favourite migratory bird in the Bird Migration Competition. With his vote for the Common Crane Jalle Hiltunen from Sweden was the lucky winner of a Leica APO-Televid 82 spotting scope.

Hannah and HGON win Leica binoculars and telescope

Birdingplaces was launched at the beginning of 2020. Together with Leica we started a Go-in-and-Win promotion. The response was overwhelming and it gave Birdingplaces a kickstart!

Leica supports Birdingplaces

Leica supports our birding community and helps us to realise a website that is free for all users. The high quality precision optics of Leica are perfect for birdwatching. That’s why more and more birders choose for Leica. The absolute top model binoculars is the Leica Noctivid with its superior contrasts and uncompromisingly large depth of field. It is compact, stylish and elegant, but also incredibly robust and durable. The optical quality and focusing precision gives you a three-dimensional viewing experience