Tagged: Georgia

Reflections from Batumi Bird Fest 2024

Guest blog by Tomas Axén Haraldsson, OSME Youth Development Officer OSME are long standing supporters and collaborators of the sensational Batumi Raptor Count (BRC), now doing their 17th straight autumn of raptor migration monitoring in the hills...

Batumi Raptor Count need volunteer counters

Batumi in Georgia is one of the most impressive raptor migration bottlenecks in the world, with more than 1 million birds of prey passing overhead on their way south each autumn. And Batumi Raptor Count is a...

Batumi Raptor Count – call for volunteers

After a successful crowdfunding campaign earlier this year, the Batumi Raptor Count team have confirmed they will continue their world-leading monitoring programme this autumn. Counters are required for a minimum of two weeks between August 12th and October...

Batumi – Serengeti of the skies

Batumi in Georgia is rapidly becoming one of the best known places in the world to watch one of nature’s most spectacular phenomenon – migration. Specifically, raptor migration. Every autumn for the last 9 years a group...

Volunteer for the Batumi Raptor Count 2014

“As every autumn, the Batumi Raptor Count seeks interested birdwatchers to participate in this absolutely extraordinary monitoring camp to record the fantastic migration of raptors along the Eastern Black Sea Flyway, in Georgia. This flyway is one...

Georgia Batumi Raptor Count 2010

Georgia Batumi Raptor Count 2010

Since 2008 the autumn migration of raptors at Batumi on the east side of the Black sea has been monitored by teams of volunteers. Over 830 000 raptors have been counted in eight weeks. More information about...