Wayne Mones has been an avid birder since childhood, and leads bird walks. He has written about birding optics for Better View Desired, Bird Watcher’s Digest, and on The Perch, the Audubonmagazine blog.

Articles by Wayne Mones

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Gear Advice

How To Choose Your Binoculars

By Wayne Mones
April 18, 2016 — When it comes to birding, your looking glass makes all the difference.
Birding

The Audubon Guide to Binoculars

By Wayne Mones
April 11, 2016 — When it comes to birdwatching, what you choose to look through makes all the difference.

The 2013 Audubon Guide to Binoculars

By Wayne Mones
November 18, 2013 — When it comes to birdwatching, what you choose to look through makes all the difference.

Review: Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean

By Wayne Mones
October 04, 2013

Review: The Warbler Guide, Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle

By Wayne Mones
September 16, 2013

Review: Primates of The World, Jean-Jacques Petter and Francois Desbordes

By Wayne Mones
August 18, 2013

Review: The Kingdom of Fungi

By Wayne Mones
April 29, 2013

Review: The Crossley ID Guide to Raptors

By Wayne Mones
March 29, 2013

Review: The Unfeathered Bird, Katrina van Grouw, Princeton University Press, 2013

By Wayne Mones
January 28, 2013

Review: Petrels, Albatrosses & Storm Petrels of North America, Steve N. G. Howell

By Wayne Mones
January 23, 2012