Events
‘Fight for Flight’
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.
Merchandise
BRC 2024 T-Shirt
As you know, the start of a new count season also means that we are launching a new annual T-Shirt. For the 16th edition of the Batumi Raptor Count, we’re featuring a new species on our T-Shirts: the Black Kite.
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BRC Flyway Monitoring Traineeship in collaboration with OSME
Over the past decade, migration monitoring has become more and more popular along the East Afro-Eurasian Flyway, with projects (re)starting around the Caucasus region, the Middle East and Central Asia.
Organisation
Female bird(er)s
From all the 37+ raptor species observed in the Batumi bottleneck — why in particular did we choose an adult female Honey Buzzard as cover photo?
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We’re looking for volunteers for Autumn 2024
After successfully finishing another crowdfunding campaign, we’re happy to announce the call for counters.
Education
Education activities are kicking off
After publishing our new education booklet this past autumn, our education initiative is kicking into high gear this spring!
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Count Coordinators for Autumn 2024
With the funding for 2024 complete, we have started preparations for the count! The count will run from the 12th of August until the 21st of October.
Fundraising
Mission accomplished: funding for the 2024 count is complete!
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.