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    How to easily extend binocular eyecups.

    I have a pair of Maven B1.2 binoculars which I rate very highly. However, when I used them in the field for the first time on a recent month long trip to Indonesia, I was annoyed to find that I kept getting the kidney bean effect, no matter how carefully I adjusted them. I worked out that I had...
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    Buying Maven binoculars in the UK

    Maven's business model of direct to consumer seems to not apply outside the USA, as there are now Maven retailers in the EU, Australia and the UK. The UK one is Nature Observation UK (Maven Optics) and the others are Maven Binoculars - Optics-Trade and The Modern Hunter Australia I live in the...
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    Maven B1.2 10x42, my thoughts.

    I have been using Maven's C1 10x42 binoculars for four years and have been very impressed with them. Because of Maven's amazing lifetime no-fault warranty, I take them with me on the wildlife tours I do in Indonesia, rather than risking my 'Alpha' binoculars, which are no longer in warranty. The...
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    Versions of the 10x42 SLC

    Please could someone tell me whether there is a comparison of specifications of the various versions of 10x42 SLC's. I know there are several, but I can't find a list comparing them. Thanks.
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    Looking for Wallace's Standardwing on Halmahera - help needed!

    I am helping a film crew make a 3 part TV series about the great naturalist and co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace. They really want to film male Wallace's Standardwing Bird of Paradise at a lekking site on Halmahera, which is easily accessible and not very...
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    Replacing rubber armor/armour of Trinovid 10x42 BA

    I have owned a pair of 10x42 Trinovid BA's for 25 years and they have been on trips all around the world with me. They are still in perfect optical and mechanical condition, and although they look pretty good cosmetically there are three 'problems' which I would ideally like to have restored...
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    My impressions of Maven C1 10x42

    I have used a pair of excellent Leica Trinovid 10x42 BA binoculars on natural history-related trips all over the world since the early 1990's. However, they are very heavy (890g) so on outings where I think I won't be seeing anything very exciting I usually leave them behind - and sometimes...
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    Alfred Russel Wallace - A Very Important Ornithologist

    Thought you might be interested in my latest online article: http://wallacefund.info/content/alfred-russel-wallace-very-important-ornithologist Not only is Wallace not acknowledged by many as the co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection, but few birders and professional ornithologists...
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    1,000,000 ha of the best bird habitat in Ecuador now under mining concessions.

    One of BirdLife International's IBAs (Important Bird Areas) in Ecuador - Bosque Protector Molleturo Mullopungo, is now completely covered with mining concessions (see attached image). Sadly it is home to endangered Ecuadorian endemics the El Oro Parakeet (Pyrrhura orcesi) and the Ecuadorian...
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