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The Leica binoculars Winter Promotion - which we organized together with Leica from November 2025 to April 2026 - generated a large response. Every birder who added a new birding area to Birdingplaces had the chance to win. More than thousand new areas were added to Birdingplaces. Thank you Leica and all participants! And please keep adding those nice new birding areas for other birders to enjoy!
And the winners are...
The winner of the Leica Trinovid 10x25 BCA compact binoculars is Frida Nettelbladt from Sweden. “I discovered Birdingplaces this winter while working on a folder about birding spots along the Halland coast in Sweden for the Getterön nature centre. I like the focus of Birdingplaces on providing a lot of useful details about spots like parking and trails. And it is a great tool to use while travelling. The Leica Trinovid 10×25 BCA are a neat compact binoculars, and surprisingly useful with great viewing quality despite being so small. I will have a really good use for them a work, while doing biodiversity surveys, when I carry a lot of other equipment. They will be useful not only for identifying birds but also finding polypores and larger lichen species growing high up in the trees. Thank you for this wonderful surprise.”
The winner of the Leica Trinovid 10x42 HD binoculars is Guido Theunis from The Netherlands. “I discovered Birdingplaces during my search for new areas to photograph birds in their natural habitat. What immediately appealed to me was the use of digital maps. Birdingplaces gives you an instant clear picture of the location and distances. Combined with the photos and bird lists, you quickly know what to expect from an area. And Birdingplaces also helps you discover lesser-known gems.
The first time I held the Leica Trinovid 10×42 in my hands, I was immediately enthusiastic. The binoculars fit comfortably in the hand, are light and compact, yet offer a powerful 10x magnification. The image is razor-sharp and steady. I took the binoculars straight to the nature reserve of Tiengemeten, a car-free island has been returned to nature and shows what nature restoration can mean. One of the highlights was observing a Marsh Harrier hunting above the reeds. Thanks to the binoculars, the bird could be beautifully followed in flight - an impressive spectacle. Birdingplaces and Leica, thank you for these beautiful binoculars!”
The winner of the Leica Noctivid 10x42 binoculars is Àlex Sastre Prieto from Spain. “Last summer I traveled to Denmark with my family and wanted to spend some time in the mornings birdwatching around the area where we were. I didn’t know how to search for good birding sites so I literally googled ‘Nice birding places in Denmark’ and your wonderful website Birdingplaces let me discover Gundsømagle, a great place where I got a new lifer: Bearded Tit! Now I use Birdingplaces always when I go birding. I also added some nice areas myself around where I live in Spain. That is the great thing about Birdingplaces, that birders share the birdwatching areas they know well.
When I went birding with the Leica Noctivid for the first time, it was amazing! What impressed me the most is the light they get even in dark moments of dawn, where birders have to be quite ready because it is a moment of great activity! Well, what can I say more about one of the best binoculars ever made? I’m thrilled to think that I won binoculars I will use for the rest of my birding days as they are of such great quality that they last forever. Many thanks Leica and Birdingplaces!”
We congratulate all winners on winning a pair of Leica top binoculars! If you didn't win yourself, you did help other birders by sharing your knowledge and describing great birding areas. We are very grateful for that. Thanks again everyone for participating!
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