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Analogue vs. digital birding

10,000 Birds

Many people are buying or downloading free bird ID apps, consequently narrowing the market niche and increasing the prices of paper books. Ben Lizdas commented somewhere how fascinated he is with optics: in this electronic era, the top-notch binoculars are true high-tech, yet they work without batteries. Inset: birding Costa Rica.

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