The shift to mirrorless cameras for wildlife photography has been expensive but rewarding for birders. Sony set the pace, forcing traditional market leaders Canon and Nikon to switch from SLR to mirrorless systems. Since 2020, Canon has released a series of camera bodies with animal eye-focus, one of the main advantages of going mirrorless (see...

Although based at the University of York, Colin Beale has spent a quarter of a century studying birds in East Africa. His entertaining book, 101 Curious Tales of East African Birds , grew out of a series of tweets on #BirdsAtTea penned during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. It uses 101 East African birds to...