19 Best Tried-and-True Gifts for Bird Lovers (2025)

Maybe it’s you familiar with that different Memes It details that once you reach middle age, you’re automatically pigeonholed, Harry Potter-style, into one of a handful of hobbies, like baking sourdough bread, gardening, or bird watching. I can’t disagree with this as I am a middle-aged person who has taken up bird watching. But I know that enjoying birds and their various activities is fun for all ages. Birds are beautiful, interesting and unpredictable, and it’s fascinating to keep a running life list of all the birds you’ve seen and hope to see in your life.

Whether someone you know is in the birding phase, preparing for this phase, or has been at it for decades, all of these unique gifts – for both traveling birders and backyard bird lovers – are things that either I or another bird-loving member of the reviews team have tested, been gifted, or purchased outright and enjoyed.

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Update November 2025: We added the Birdfy Nest Polygon, a sticker book from Brass Monkey, a bb.Fonts bag and a heated jacket from Venustas, and kept up-to-date links and prices.