There are many ways to take your first step into birding, and here’s a great one: follow the lead of actor Sean Bean. A lifelong birding enthusiast, Bean now debuts as the host of the U.K.’s leading birdwatching podcast. That husky Yorkshire voice—so familiar as Boromir in Lord of the Rings and Eddard “Ned” Stark in Game of Thrones— will be heard talking birds with everyone from ornithologists to the Elbow frontman Gus Garvey to the writer Jonathan Franzen. There’s something for everyone here, whether you’re a backyard birder or hawk-head, have seen it all or just started. —Paulina Prosnitz