Autumn Report
Autumn Report 2025
As if nature was making up for not making the million mark last year, we counted no less than a staggering 1.5 million raptors this year.
Autumn Report
Autumn Report 2024
Not a million this time, but recording almost 900,000 migrating raptors is no less impressive.
Autumn Report
Autumn Report 2023
15 years in, monitoring, conservation and education work in the Batumi bottleneck is still going strong.
Every season, 2012–today
Browse the full archive of Batumi Raptor Count season reports.
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Autumn 2022
Raptor migration was unusually delayed, but it was another spectacular season nonetheless.
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Spring 2022
The third and final edition of our pilot spring counts.
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Autumn 2021
After a 1-year autumn count hiatus, we returned to the Batumi bottleneck. And we were in for many surprises!
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Spring 2020
While the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic ground much of human life to a halt, bird migration continued.
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Autumn 2019
The 12th season brought unprecedented numbers of Black Kites, a new raptor species for the BRC counts.
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Spring 2019
After 11 years of autumn counts it was time for something completely different, so this year we organised the first structured spring count.
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Autumn 2018
A new decade of counts started with unusual weather and early migration of many species.
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Autumn 2017
A special year for BRC as we celebrated our 10th anniversary.
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Autumn 2016
The 9th consecutive Batumi Raptor Count, with historical totals for Black Kites, Booted Eagles and Red-footed Falcons.
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Autumn 2015
Despite unusual weather conditions, we reached the million threshold for the 4th year in a row.
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Autumn 2013
Although we were expecting another peak of Honey Buzzards in the first week of September, we had to be happy with a first season peak day of roughly 68.000.
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Autumn 2012
After 5 years monitoring of raptors at the Batumi bottleneck, we have surpassed all expectations this autumn. We tallied ONE Million migrating birds of prey.