News overview

18-02-2026

Big city birding gems

Interesting birdwatching areas are usually far outside major cities. But sometimes there are beautiful birding hotspots right in the heart of a big city. Eight birding sites in London, Berlin, New York, Barcelona, Bangkok, Amsterdam, Istanbul and Cape Town that are worth a visit.

29-09-2025

Win a top-quality pair of Leica binoculars

Welcome to the Leica-Birdingplaces winter promotion 2025-2026! Three high quality Leica binoculars will be given away. Find out how you can win, and which Leica models are being given away.

09-07-2025

How to use the Birdingplaces map on your smartphone in the field

When you visit an area that is described on Birdingplaces, you can easily follow the set route on your smartphone. On this page we explain how that works.

26-05-2025

Add your images to a birdingplace

You can add images of birds or landscapes of birdingplaces you visited. On this page we show you how easily it works.

07-05-2025

Kathrin, Luke and Dirk win Leica binoculars

Meet the winners of The Leica binoculars Winter Promotion - which we organized together with Leica from November 2024 to April 2025.

23-04-2025

Select your favourite birdwatching areas

At the request of many users, we have made it possible to save your favourite areas on Birdingplaces. Here we show you how easy this works.

04-10-2024

Win high end Leica binoculars this winter

Anyone who adds a birdwatching area to Birdingplaces between October 1, 2024 and April 1, 2025 has a chance to win top-class Leica binoculars.

30-09-2024

Join our Birdingplaces Country Editor Team

Birdingplaces continues to grow rapidly and birders from many new countries are joining. We are looking for new country editors.

18-06-2024

Perrine, Teresa, Damon and Alexis win Leica binoculars

Our Leica binoculars Winter give-away was a big success. Thanks to the promotion - sponsored by Leica - more than 1200 great new bird watching areas have been added and described on Birdingplaces. Have a look who have won the Leica Binoculars.

07-06-2024

Kingfisher on your T-shirt

Because the Common Kingfisher is loved by almost every birder we have added this beautiful Kingfisher design to our collection of bird-T-shirts in the Birdingplaces webshop.

04-06-2024

Suggest an edit or give feedback

With our feedback tool every birder can help to improve the information on Birdingplaces. On this page we show you how easily it works.

02-11-2023

Join Birdingplaces and win Leica Trinovid compact binoculars

Everyone who has a Birdingplaces account on March 31, 2024 participates in our raffle of a pair of Leica Trinovid 10x25: a high quality compact binoculars that fits in your pocket. Nice if you join our growing birding community. By the way: creating an account on Birdingplaces is free.

13-10-2023

Win Top Class Leica Binoculars

Anyone who adds a bird watching area to Birdingplaces this winter has a chance to win top end Leica binoculars. Great if you join in!

19-09-2023

In the Spotlight: Tenerife

What are good travel destinations for you as a birdwatcher? To help birders find the right birding destinations we have started a new kind of infopage on Birdingplaces: ‘In the spotlight’. We kick off with Tenerife, the best place to see the endemic birds of the Canary Islands.

23-06-2023

New bird shirts: Hoopoe and White-tailed Eagle

We have some nice new bird designs in our webshop. For example a design of a flying White-tailed Eagle or of a Hoopoe with a raised crest.

18-04-2023

Fanny, Sebastian and Samuel win Leica binoculars

Our Leica Rate-Add-And-Win winter promotion was a big success. Thanks to the promotion - sponsored by Leica - more than 1000 great new bird watching areas have been added and described. Have a look who have won the Leica Binoculars.

26-03-2023

See a missing bird? Help us out!

We are still missing bird pictures in our Bird Gallery. If you have a picture of a bird that is missing in our gallery, send it to us and help our community.

22-12-2022

The 100 best birding spots

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

21-12-2022

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.

22-10-2022

How to rate a birdingplace

By rating bird areas on Birdingplaces you make it easier for other birders to choose which areas to visit. Rating an area takes less than a minute. This is how it works.

29-06-2022

Birdingplaces Webshop

In our webshop you can buy T-shirts and other items with nice bird designs. With buying an item in the Birdingplaces webhop you help to support the Birdingplaces community. New in our webshop: the Hoopoe!

16-06-2022

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.

30-11-2021

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.

15-12-2020

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