We’re excited to share that Batumi Raptor Count will be part of the Avian Odyssey 2025, the annual meeting of the British Ornithologists’ Club, held this year at the Natural History Museum in London. Our chairman Tohar Tal will be speaking about BRC’s work protecting one of the world’s most spectacular raptor migrations.
During our 2023 Autumn count, Heather Fortune volunteered with us. "Fight for Flight" is the title of her year-long solo expedition, contributing to ornithological research and conservation across Europe and Asia.
The short film Worlds Collide, directed by Nicholas Rodd, about migration through the Georgian bottleneck is now free to watch indefinitely and embedded below.
A short film directed by Nicholas Rodd about migration through the Georgian bottleneck has been selected by the British Documentary Festival, and is free to watch until May 14th.
We just returned home from the 3rd International Bird Observatory Conference (IBOC) in Eilat. It was a very successfull get together of people from bird observatories across the globe to share knowledge and experiences.
We would like to invite all of you to the annual Batumi Birding festival, taking place the first week of September this year.
Between 2-6 september 2016 the annual global shorebirds count is taking place.
This weekend one of the biggest gatherings of the birding community takes place, at Rutland waters in England.
At the Batumi Raptor Count, we had a great weekend and contributed 90,756 migrating birds to the tally.
We warmly invite everyone to come up to one of our two watchpoints this weekend and observe migrating birds together with us.
Talk by Oliver Reville: Addressing illegal hunting at Batumi through education and awareness raising.
Spanish talk on migration spectacle of Batumi, in Murcia, Spain. Attend and listen to the talk of Blanca Perez, sharing her experience as a count coordinator in 2014!
If you want to hear more about the BRC, there are several opportunities to catch up with one of the team members in the next days.
After having had stands at birdfairs in Belgium, the Netherlands and Great Britain, this year was the first time BRC was actively promoted in Spain.
About half of the world’s shorebird populations are in decline, and the rate of habitat loss is worse than ever before.
From tomorrow onwards, we will be present at the British Birdfair. This year, the birdfair organisers kindly offered us a free stall, to promote our conservation work. You can find us in Markee 6 stall 5.
Today, Bird Conservation Georgia celebrates World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD), through its Batumi Raptor Count (BRC) programme located at the city of Batumi in Georgia, together with the CMS Raptors MoU Coordinating Unit.
Next week, the 16. Türkiye Kuş Konferansı | 16th Turkey Bird Watchers Conference is held in Istanbul, organised by Doğa Derneği. The central theme of this edition is "Migration Routes and their threats".
This saturday the BRC will be present at the Belgische Vogeldag. We will have a stand where people can find out more about the project.
After the Festival, we embarked on a three-day trip (from 8 until 11 September 2013) to Kazbegi targeting the Caucasus endemics, with the happy few that signed up for the extension tour.
Yesterday we celebrated the end of a fantastic second edition of the Batumi Bird Festival 2013.
This month BRC will be present at the British and the Dutch Birdfair. We will do a lecture about what we have done with BRC so far and what we want to do in the future.
Next saturday, on february the 16th, BRC will be present with a talk and a stall on the 'Belgische Vogeldag'. Johannes will present an overview of 5 years of BRC and at our stall you can find out more about our project.
See you this saturday at Dutch Birding Day? BRC will be present with a talk and a stall. Wouter will present an overview of 5 years of BRC and at our stall you can find out more about our project.
During the festival, the Dutch journalist Roel Pauw visited our project. He recorded a compilation of the diverse aspects of BRC and this was broadcasted last Sunday on the Dutch radio-station Vara for the program 'Vroege Vogels'.
From 27th until the 30th of september, the Rufford small grants recipients conference was held in Tsaghkhadzor, Armenia.
This week, three board members are representing the BRC at the European Conference for Conservation Biology in Glasgow, Scotland.
The British Bird Fair is happening this weekend and BRC is pleased to be given the opportunity to deliver a talk there. Danny Heptinstall will be presenting the monitoring and conservation work of BRC at 12.10 on Friday the 17th.