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Complete list of all news posts.
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Applications open for the 2026 Flyway Monitoring Traineeship
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Call for Counters: We’re looking for volunteers for Autumn 2026
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New publication in Ardea: The eastern Black Sea coast as a principal raptor flyway in spring
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Something remarkable saved the Autumn Count of 2026
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And… it’s a wrap. What a season!
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1.5 Million raptors!
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What’s going on up north?
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Kite, Kite, Kite Optics
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1,422,172 and counting
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The weeks of diversity
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1,000,000 raptors — already!
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Wave after wave after wave
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One million raptors: But where do they come from?
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Half a million raptors!
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High up above: the first few days from Kvirike
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The Honey Buzzards have arrived!
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The first 1000+ raptors day
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Station 3 – Pilot count from Chalet Kvirike
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The count has started!
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BRC 2025 T-Shirt
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Count preparations
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BRC at the Avian Odyssey 2025
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Flyway Monitoring Trainees of 2025
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Applications open for the 2025 Flyway Monitoring Traineeship
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Call for Counters: We’re looking for volunteers for Autumn 2025
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Soaring to success: We reached our €30,000 crowdfunding goal for Autumn 2025
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The BRC Webshop is open!
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‘Fight for Flight’
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Fundraiser for 2025
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BRC 2024 T-Shirt
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BRC Flyway Monitoring Traineeship in collaboration with OSME
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Female bird(er)s
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We’re looking for volunteers for Autumn 2024
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Education activities are kicking off
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Collaboration in the East African-Eurasian Flyway
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Count Coordinators for Autumn 2024
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Education: The new booklet is in the schools!
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GPS-tagged Greater Spotted Eagle at Batumi
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Mission accomplished: funding for the 2024 count is complete!
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Falconry - Third time's the charm
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BRC 2023 T-Shirt
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Urgently needed: Long-term counters for Autumn 2023
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First BRC publication in Russian Raptors Conservation journal
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Bird Artwork by Jérôme Wey
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Successful completion of 2023 Crowdfunding!
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Count Coordinators for Autumn 2023
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From counts to knowledge: research in progress at BRC
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Teaching teachers in Georgia about birds
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From Georgia to Tanzania: the secret ways of the Levant Sparrowhawk
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Fundraiser for 2023
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BRC 2022 T-Shirt
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Spring Report 2022 published
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We're looking for volunteers for Autumn 2022
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Successful completion of 2022 Crowdfunding!
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Already 400K raptors during the 3rd and final Spring Count
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Donation Doubling Days!
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SLAVA UKRAINE, SLAVA GEORGIA! 🇺🇦🇬🇪
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Count Coordinators for Autumn 2022
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Watch Now: Worlds Collide
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World-class migration monitoring at Batumi soars or falls with your support!
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Falconers: friends or foes in raptor research and conservation?
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Update: Moult study of Batumi raptors
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Volunteers Wanted: Spring Count 2022
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New publication: Opportunistic in-flight foraging behaviour of Black Kites during spring migration
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BRC 2021 T-Shirt
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5 Reasons why you should NOT participate in the Batumi Raptor Count
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Watch now: Worlds Collide selected for British Documentary Festival
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We're looking for volunteers for Autumn 2021
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BRC: A model for migration monitoring in new BirdLife review
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Now Open Access: From migration counts to conservation in a flyway under threat
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Count Coordinators for Autumn 2021
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BRC Spring Count 2021 Cancelled
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BRC 2020 T-Shirt
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Spring Report 2020 published
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New publication in British Birds: From migration counts to conservation in a raptor flyway under threat
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BRC Magazine 2019
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BRC Autumn Count 2020 Cancelled
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Spring Count 2020
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Autumn Report 2019 published
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Half Season Report 2019
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New publication: Population trends from 8 years of BRC Autumn Counts
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New BRC T-shirts
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Season 2019 has started
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Spring Report 2019 published
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BRC Magazine 2018
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Black-winged Kite in the Chorokhi Delta
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Spring Count Update
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BRC goes Open Access
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BRC at IBOC2019
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New publication: Egyptian Nightjar at the Chorokhi delta, Georgia and status in Europe
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Pioneering pilot spring count in Batumi 2019
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New raptor watch platform
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Autumn Report 2018 published
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Black kite with wingtags spotted
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1 Million Raptors!
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Harrier Madness
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500,000 Raptors counted!
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The first 100,000
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Announcement: Batumi Birdwatching Festival 2018
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BRC Magazine 2017
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5 Reasons why you should NOT participate in Batumi Raptor Count
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Unexpected plumage: immature Honey Buzzard
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Half-season report
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Half a Million
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MEGA: Egyptian Nightjar, new for Georgia
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Volunteer from Kenya - Welcome Martha Mutiso
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TWENTY-thousand Honey Buzzards and counting
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Rarity: Eleonora's falcon flies over station 2
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Start of the 10th autumn season count
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NEW BRC Publication in Sandgrouse
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Review of SWAROVSKI OPTIK’s new FieldPro package
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Autumn report 2016 is ready
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Half-season report for 2016 is out
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Youth exchange in Chorokhi delta
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Global Shorebird Counting
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Season take off - get ready for the peaks
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Apparently Montagu's Harrier migrates with delay this year in Batumi
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Meet us at the British Birdfair
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Tomorrow we start to count
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Coordinator team complete
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Raptor Migration Network has been founded
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Newsletter February
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Report 2015 is out
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A word from the new chairman
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Start of BRC membership
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1 million raptors within 7 weeks!
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EuroBirdwatch results
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EuroBirdwatch with us
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Update on hunting monitoring
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500.000 within first 3 weeks
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Hunting monitoring volunteers
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Talk at OSME, Norfolk on illegal hunting in Batumi (4th July)
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Talk in Murcia on Batumi migration (30th May)
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Join our lectures
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BRC at the Extremadura Birdwatching Fair in Spain
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BRC weekend Ghent
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BRC T-shirts for sale!
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Research Coordinator
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African-Eurasian day record from Batumi: 264.891 raptors
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Two days in the Chorokhi Delta
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Halfway through the count
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Raptor shooting survey
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World Shorebirds Day at Batumi
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Sightings on Observation.org
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Chorokhi Delta in mid August
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Meet us at British and Dutch Birdfair
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Updated protocol of monitoring raptors
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World Migratory Bird Day
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Turkey Bird Watchers Conference
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Champions of the Flyway grants $30k
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Good start of spring count
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Tripreport: Eagles and Little Bustards in East Georgia
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Support our Bird Race Crew in Eilat
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Tripreport: Batumi in winter
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BRC Design Contest
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Champions of the Flyway Bird Race funds BCG
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BRC at the Belgische Vogeldag
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Pilot Spring Count 2014
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New program board
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Order the BRC new year cards
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End of BRC autumn count 2013
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Exciting Environmental Education Exchange
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Festival extension trip to Kazbegi
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Unforgettable Birds and Biodiversity Camp
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Batumi Bird Festival 2013 report
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Catch up on the season
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Birding in the Chorokhi Delta
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Disney Conservation Grant for BRC
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The end of a successful 'Back to Nature Camp'!
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Ready to count!
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BRC at British and Dutch Birdfair
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EU Youth In Action supports youth project at BRC!
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One morning of spring migration in Choroki delta
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Crested or Oriental Honey Buzzard and hybrids
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Swarovski ATX scope review
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Rufford Foundation grant approved
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Threatened species photos needed
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BRC at Belgische Vogeldag
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"One million"-Tshirts now available
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BRC at Dutch Birding Day
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Reporting on 2012 Education Activities
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Invitation General Meeting
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Thanks for latest gifts
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Thanks to all volunteers & staff
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Board 2013 elections
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BRC on Vroege Vogels
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Support from Natuurmonumenten
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The first 'Shikra' of BRC: hybrid or aberrant Levant?
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RuffordSG conference Armenia
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A day birding in the Chorokhi delta (Batumi)
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Shikra: new species for BRC?
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Dark morph Marsh Harriers
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African-Eurasian Day Record: 179,342 Honey Buzzards
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Day record of 99.000 Honey Buzzards on 30th August 2012
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BRC at the ECCB
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Count kicked off today
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BRC at the British BirdFair
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Swarovski increases optic support!
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White-tailed lapwing in Chorokhi
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Swarovision EL 12x50 Binocular Review
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Towards the end of the 2011 season…
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Halfway through the season…
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Swarovski Optik sponsors
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One week of BRC: 18 volunteers + 6 students vs. 10.000 raptors!
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BRC 2011 … Starting the autumn season!
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Batumi counts on Trektellen
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ARDEA accepts article on Batumi raptor migration
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OSME fund for conservation granted
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Successful preparation visit
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Presenting the BRC 2011 Coordinators!
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BSc Thesis Michael Tholin on weather related Kazbegi migration patterns…
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Medraptors: BRC research partner for 2011
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Prins Bernhard Fund for Nature approved
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Processing data & looking forward to 2011…
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Lots of rain, lots of migration, lots of rain, lots of migration...
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Rufford Small Grants Foundation supports BRC2011
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A summary of 2 weeks at Batumi: migration in general & some perspectives on hunting in the bottleneck…
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BRC 2010: the full state of affairs…
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Slow migration, but Oriental Honey-Buzzards on three succesive days...
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Oriental Honey Buzzard! ... That calls for a little newsflash!
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Spectacular migration at the Batumi bottleneck!
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Short update
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Two weeks of counting ... 100.000 Honey Buzzards!
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BRC 2010 ... takeoff!