Many of you will be familiar with our winter crowdfunding ritual. This year our small team fell quiet at the worst possible time, but a remarkable act of generosity ensured the Autumn 2026 count can go ahead.
Less than three months after re-launching our crowdfunding campaign, we're delighted to announce that we've reached our €30,000 goal to fund the Autumn 2025 count in the Batumi bottleneck.
For sixteen years the BRC has conducted high-quality raptor migration counts. This long-term monitoring is critical to understand how bird populations are doing in our rapidly changing world.
Since 2021 we’ve been constantly running crowdfunding campaigns to be able to fund our autumn counts, much-needed equipment, and other practical aspects of our monitoring and conservation efforts.
Less than three months ago, on Christmas Eve 2022, we re-launched our crowdfunding campaign to fund the upcoming autumn count of 2023.
For thirteen years the BRC has conducted high quality raptor migration counts. This long-term monitoring is critical to understand how bird populations are doing in our rapidly changing world.
When we launched our crowdfunding campaign on Christmas Eve 2021 we were not entirely sure what to expect. Over the years we have received endless words of encouragement and appreciation.
Today – March 1st 2022 – marks the start of our 3rd and final spring count in Batumi. A historic day, which also marks the start of our final sprint to complete the crowdfunding for the BRC autumn count of 2022.
Over the past years we have been getting more and more surprised reactions from volunteers and visitors about the fact that Batumi Raptor Count is a 100% volunteer-based organisation.
We review Swarovski Optik's new FieldPro package, as Jasper Wehrmann, Folkert de Boer and Johannes Jansen share their thoughts on the redesigned EL binoculars they've been using this season.
At the Champions of the Flyway awards ceremony the Batumi Raptor Crew was honored to receive a check of $30.000 for Bird Conservation Georgia, presented by Angelo Caserta, BirdLife’s Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia.
As the first recipient of a grant from the Champions of the Flyway event, we are delighted to field the Batumi Raptor Crew team and play our part to help the inaugural Champions of the Flyway Bird Race in Eilat become a runaway…
We are pleased to inform you that BirdLife and SPNI have selected Bird Conservation Georgia as the first recipient of funding generated by the Champions of the Flyway Bird Race to support our conservation work!
Batumi Raptor Count (BRC) has been awarded a $23,400 grant from the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund (DWCF).
Our Birds and Biodiversity Camp is one of two youth projects at BRC in 2013 which aims to bring together young people from the Caucasus and western Europe with a passion for nature and environmental conservation.
Last autumn, we were delighted to receive the continuing support of Swarovski Optik. They have been providing us high quality optics to conduct our count, as always loaning their newest products.
It is our distinct pleasure to announce that the Rufford Small Grants Foundation (RSGF) has approved a 2nd small grant for the monitoring and conservation work conducted at BRC.
With a gift from Natuurpunt Vogelwerkgroep and many individual donations, including a major gift from Laurens Vogelaers, we have secured our budget until the end of 2012.
To cope with our rapid growth and increase in activities, we are constantly looking for additional funding opportunities.
It is our pleasure to have received 3 Swarvovision binoculars and 3 scopes with alu and carbon tripods for the autumn count 2012.
There are not many decent 12X binoculars on the market. Most are bulky in the hand, have a dark image, and have a field of view akin to viewing birds through a pair of toilet paper tubes. But Swarovski's entry is a bit different.
We're proud to announce that Swarovski Optik has lent us new scopes and binoculars to support the count, a generous boost for our volunteers on the watchpoints.
The Ornithological Society of the Middle East has granted 500 GBP to the project 'Assessment of hunting pressure on migrating raptors through the Lesser Caucasus'.
A grant of 20,000 EUR has been awarded to a cooperation between BRC and Georgian Centre for the Conservation of Wildlife (GCCW).
we are pleased to announce that the Rufford Small Grants Foundation has awarded 6000 GBP to the monitoring and educational activities of BRC 2011.