Birds & Wetlands is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Some of our older field-gear and product round-up posts include affiliate links to Amazon and a small number of other retailers.
What that means
- If you click an affiliate link and buy something, the retailer pays us a small commission. The price you pay is not affected.
- We recommend products we have personally used or, occasionally, products with a strong consensus among trusted reviewers — never sponsored placements.
- Our editorial decisions are not influenced by affiliate revenue. We routinely link to products with no affiliate programme when they are the right answer.
- We will never write a positive review of a product we don't believe in, no matter how generous the commission.
Why we use them
Affiliate revenue, alongside a small amount of display advertising and the occasional reader donation, is what keeps the lights on. It allows us to spend three dawns in a marsh writing one essay instead of writing three thinner ones to hit a word count.
Sponsored content
We don't accept paid placements, sponsored articles, or "guest posts" with embedded commercial links. If we ever do something funded by a partner — a research project, for example — we will say so clearly at the top of the piece.
Questions
If anything about a link looks off to you, please tell us at editors@birdsandwetlands.com. We take that seriously.
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