Sets of equipment look out of place surrounded by birds (8)
I believe the answer is:
toolkits
'sets of equipment' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'look out of place surrounded by birds' is the wordplay.
'out of place' indicates an anagram.
'surrounded by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'birds' becomes 'tits' (tit is a kind of bird).
'look' with letters rearranged gives 'oolk'.
'oolk' put into 'tits' is 'TOOLKITS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for toolkits that I've seen is " Handy boxes".)