Still not sure whether it’s worth spending 25USD/15GBP to join the 10,000 Birds Conservation Club?

Remember our Members have had the chance to enter every single one of these give-aways, and if this little list (which is growing all the time!) doesn’t convince even the most sceptical reader of our genuinely good intentions and the fantastic support the Conservation Club is already receiving from authors, publishers etc then - er, then I guess we’ll just have to try even harder (that’s the 10,000 Birds way, you know).

December 2009 give-aways:

• All three Sound Approach books, ‘The Sound Approach to Birding’, ‘Petrels night and day’, and ‘Birding from the Hip’, donated by the wonderful folks at Sound Approach. All three went to one lucky member in the Middle East!
• THREE copies of the stunning Galapagos Islands born of fire donated by the team at Princeton University Press. Three lucky North American members picked these beauties up!
• A wonderfully generous bundle of full single adult memberships for the superb UK-based conservation organisation the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. Perhaps unsurprisingly it was mainly our UK members who went for these.
• A fantastic Christmas donation from the internet’s leading birding website BirdGuides of two of their renowned DVD-Roms, Western Palearctic Interactive (BWPi) and British Birds Interactive (BBi), plus a Platinum subscription to their superb BirdGuides News Services. The DVD-Roms went to a member in the Channel Islands, the subscription to a member in northern England.

January 2010 give-aways:

• Russell Slack donated a copy of his superb and critically-lauded “”Rare Birds, Where and When: An analysis of status and distribution in Britain and Ireland. Volume 1: sandgrouse to New World orioles”. Unsurprisingly our UK members piled in and the odds were high one of them would get it - which one indeed duly did…
• Award-winning photographer Steve Hutchcraft donated TWO copies of his beautiful childrens ‘alphabet and birds’ book ‘B is for Bufflehead‘. Two of our North American members won this delightful book.
• In our first give-away competition run jointly with another blogger, Grant MacCreary of Prairie Spring: A Journey Into the Heart of a Season‘ and Kate Davis’ ‘Falcons of North America‘. The two books were one by one of our North American members.

February 2010 give-aways:

• February’s give-aways got off to a fantastic start thanks to birding’s best-known couple, Kenn and Kim Kaufman, who gave us THREE full sets of ALL FIVE of Kenn Kaufman’s superb field-guides to give-away to members. The three sets all went to North American members.
• We also gave away Laura Erickson’s excellent ‘The Bird Watching Answer Book’, which we reviewed in January 2010. My personal review copy went to a member in North America.

March 2010 give-aways:

• Our first give-away in March was a brand-new copy of the 2nd edition of what is often called ‘the best field-guide in the world’ - the ‘Collins Bird Guide‘. Somewhat surprisingly North American members piled in for this one, and it duly went to a member in New York.