After 3 months of flying from woodland to woodland, often following river valleys and making longer stops on the way, ‘our’ Levant Sparrowhawk ‘Dudu’ is now sending data from the savannahs of Tanzania!
The short film Worlds Collide, directed by Nicholas Rodd, about migration through the Georgian bottleneck is now free to watch indefinitely and embedded below.
Batumi Raptor Count has long documented the causes and consequences of illegal raptor shooting in Georgia, but the role of traditional falconers remained a blind spot. Last autumn, BRC teamed up with Fauna & Flora International to explore whether a constructive alliance with ethical falconers is possible.
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.
In the August 2020 issue of British Birds, we published a long-form paper on Batumi Raptor Count.
We are proud to announce the current August issue of British Birds contains a long paper on Batumi Raptor Count.
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).
Visual materials are an important asset for BRC to help convince grant-makers and sponsors to support our conservation work.
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'.