After 7 weeks of counting in autumn 2015 we reached again the season total of 1 million raptors! Steppe Buzzard migration finally kicked off and we counted over 120 000 birds during 3rd, 4th and 5th of October.
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.
The first year of the systematic monitoring of the hunting pressure in the Batumi Bottleneck is slowly coming to its end.
The first 3 weeks of raptor migration counting in Batumi are over and we can already say that the start of this season was a big surprise.
Sabuko - Society for Nature Conservation Georgia is looking for motivated people who want to help monitor the illegal hunting pressure in the Batumi bottleneck.
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.
During 20-23 February most members of the enlarged BRC team came to Ghent to spend a long weekend together.
For only 15 euro you become the proud owner of this original BRC T-shirt with Pallid harrier print. Send an email with your size to filiep.tjollyn@batumiraptorcount.org. We have small, medium, large, XL & XXL.