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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nikonmike" data-source="post: 3668795" data-attributes="member: 134117">Think you're not going to get an easy answer|<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />|Things like the detail in your images are as much to do with how good you are, light conditions and how close you can get to the subject.With your budget and if your not interested in birds in flight then a top end bridge camera may fit the bill, you would need to think of the high power zoom to get larger images of small birds when you were close, not images of birds over long distances if you wanted to have the detail.DSLR and long enough lens will be a lot bigger and heavier, mirrorless and say 100-400 would be closer but it still may be over your required weight etc</blockquote>