From BirdWatching magazine: To celebrate young birders and the adults who inspire and encourage them, Leica Sport Optics and BirdWatching magazine are partnering to conduct an essay contest oriented to young birders and the adults who mentor them.
Adult birders are asked to describe a memorable birding experience that they had mentoring one or more young birders. In turn, young birders are to write about a memorable birding experience that they had with an adult mentor.
A superstar panel of Leica Birding Team members and BirdWatching editors will read all the submissions and will select two winners, one from each category.
The adult winner will be awarded a new Leica Trinovid 42 binocular. The winning young birder will receive a binocular, too, but it won’t be just any Leica Trinovid. It will be…
- The same Trinovid used throughout 2013 by Kenn Kaufman, Pete Dunne, Victor Emanuel, Don and Lillian Stokes, and other expert birders…
- The Trinovid that was on site for both the second U.S. record of Amazon Kingfisher and the first record of Eurasian Sparrowhawk…
- The same binocular that Neil Heyward used in December to break the ABA Big Year record…
It will be lucky Leica Trinovid 42 Binocular No. 2002069—the famous Traveling Trinovid!
Essays must be emailed to Trinovid@birdwatchingdaily.com no later than June 30, 2014. Contest winners will be announced on BirdWatchingDaily.com and in the October 2014 issue of BirdWatching magazine. Complete rules and more information are on the BirdWatching website.