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  1. johannesjansen

    Volunteer at the Batumi Raptor Count in Georgia

    For those who need convincing, we recorded 1,384,548 migrating raptors in the two month-survey last autumn 2014. Here are the season totals: Honey Buzzard: 662,600 Steppe Buzzard: 526,743 Black Kite: 113,302 raptor sp.: 35,466 Marsh Harrier: 8,520 Aquila sp.: 7,590 Hen/Montagu's/Pallid Harrier...
  2. johannesjansen

    Volunteer at the Batumi Raptor Count in Georgia

    Dear Simmo, great to hear about your interest to volunteer. We prefer to have volunteers for 12 days or longer, as it requires some days of introduction and training, and it increases the quality of the count. But as indicated, if you have considerable experience with raptor identification, you...
  3. johannesjansen

    Batumi Birding Week

    For this year, we are organising not one but two Batumi Birding Weeks. In contrast with the Batumi Bird Festival, they are a more low-key event for birders with a more modest budget. On these weeks, you get a similar set of day trips and stay in the village guesthouses, perfect for enjoying...
  4. johannesjansen

    Successful Batumi Bird Festival

    Save the date for the next Batumi Bird Festival : 13-20 september 2015. The event is timed for the most diverse BATUMI experience, and will again include top talks and interesting workshops. This event is organised by the newly established Batumi Birding ltd...
  5. johannesjansen

    Volunteer at the Batumi Raptor Count in Georgia

    This autumn the 8th edition of the Batumi Raptor Count will take place in the Republic of Georgia. The survey will be held from 17 August until 16 October 2015. As every autumn the BRC seeks interested bird watchers to participate in this absolutely extraordinary event to record the fantastic...
  6. johannesjansen

    Batumi Birding Week

    There are only three places in the world where you can see over a million raptors migrating during a single season. One of these is Batumi, Georgia: a new birding hotspot with much left to discover. Every autumn, a massive southbound flight of up to 34 species of raptors is observed along the...
  7. johannesjansen

    Batumi Spring Migration

    A couple of weeks at the Eastern Black Sea Coast in Batumi, Georgia, can easily develop into a breathtaking adventure. The nature experiences are stunning and bird watchers can see an enormous variety of different migratory and breeding birds. Starting at the first of April with our study the...
  8. johannesjansen

    Batumi Raptor Count 2014

    As every autumn the BRC seeks interested bird watchers to participate in this absolutely extraordinary event to record the fantastic migration of raptors along the Eastern Black Sea Flyway. The last 5 positions are in the window display on the volunteers team, to count and master the...
  9. johannesjansen

    Vote for the Batumi Raptor Trail

    The European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) and Vaude nominated our Batumi Raptor Trail development for substantial funding. Help us win the public voting for the EOCA-grant! It takes a only few seconds to cast your vote and you can really make the difference. CLICK HERE TO VOTE...
  10. johannesjansen

    Champions of the flyway - support Batumi

    Were over one quarter of our fundraising goal for this bird race. Don't hesitate to add your contribution! http://www.justgiving.com/COTFBRC
  11. johannesjansen

    Champions of the flyway - support Batumi

    Champions of the Flyway is the first major Western Palearctic bird race event takes place at Eilat, Israel. In the course of just 24 hours, teams from all over Europe will compete to tick off the highest number of bird species in Israel's Negev Desert. This is not just a bird race, but also a...
  12. johannesjansen

    Batumi Raptor Count 2014

    The annual autumn count in Batumi, at the Black sea coastal hills in Georgia, will be held this year from 17 Aug until 16 Oct. The first vacancies among the team are open, as we are looking for enthusiastic and dedicated raptorwatchers to serve as a Count Coordinator and strengthen the team for...
  13. johannesjansen

    Batumi Spring Migration

    There are still some vacancies on the spring count team. Info and subscriptions here http://www.batumiraptorcount.org/visit/raptor-count/pilot-spring-count-2014
  14. johannesjansen

    The sad story of the Chorokhi delta

    Thank you, Opisska! BRC has set up a fund-raising campaign to protect this important place. All donations are welcome, small and big. Check it out here: http://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/17329-protect-the-chorokhi-delta-in-batumi-a-hotspot-for-birds-on-migration
  15. johannesjansen

    Batumi Spring Migration

    The BRC is conducting the first spring count in Batumi, Georgia, from 01. April till 31. May 2014 and invites everybody who is keen to join the migration count. This pilot study aims to record data on all passing raptors, waders, seabirds and passerines in Batumi to create a full data set on...
  16. johannesjansen

    Crested? Honey Buzzard, Batumi, Georgia

    In my opinion, this looks like a fairly regular Juvenile Honey Buzzard. So far, we have not succeeded in picking out a juvenile Crested at the Batumi Raptor Count. But last autumn, we did record at least 47 individuals (among the 370.000 P.apivorus). Part of these big honey buzzards show mixed...
  17. johannesjansen

    The sad story of the Chorokhi delta

    Dear Opisska, glad to hear that the concerns about the Chorokhi delta are shared. I have also experienced similar mornings in this place, . The hunters are allowed to hunt quail, but we found almost all species recorded in this area shot. Last autumn we started to monitor the bird abundance...
  18. johannesjansen

    Georgia

    Dear Robert, of course. It is one of the most exciting places in the world to experience raptor migration. We have many upcoming projects and possibilities to visit this year. For any type of birder: as a volunteer to help with the raptor count, a visitor who would like to enjoy this...
  19. johannesjansen

    Join Batumi Raptor Count 2013

    BRC's monitoring of migrating raptors autumn 2013 is over! The 16th of October, was the final day of our monitoring program. In total, from both count stations together 1.229.199 raptors were counted this fall. This might be a new season record, although the data is not filtered yet on double...
  20. johannesjansen

    Successful Batumi Bird Festival

    The trip to Mtirala National park on the next day had good weather, and during the walk we focused on the stunning subtropical lush vegetation of this well protected botanical hotspot. Many of the plants encountered there are very range restricted. We also succeeded in locating the endemic...
  21. johannesjansen

    Successful Batumi Bird Festival

    The second day was very rainy, and raptor migration was likely to be slow. So it was decided to go sea-watching. From a beach club just north of Makhinjauri, we comfortably installed us on the sheltered terrace and watched what came in from the sea. It proved to be very productive: several...
  22. johannesjansen

    Successful Batumi Bird Festival

    From the 3rd until the 8th September, a fantastic second edition of the Batumi Bird Festival took place in Batumi, Republic of Georgia. This event, at which we explored the different aspects of birding around Batumi during a 5 day program, was a great success. We had over 100 participants...
  23. johannesjansen

    honey buzzard RUSSIA

    The Batumi Raptor Count autumn 2013 has ended and we have never recorded that many Crested Honey Buzzards in one season before, with about 47 individuals recorded! We had a new day record of 12 individuals, with eight of them over station 2 on the 17th of September. Definitely the quality of...
  24. johannesjansen

    Join Batumi Raptor Count 2013

    Our fantastic count team has done it again, our season total is way over the 1.000.000 mark again. The count volunteers and especially the coordinators have mastered this incredible flight of raptors, and even succeeded to keep a high quality count, identifying a high proportion of the eagles...
  25. johannesjansen

    Join Batumi Raptor Count 2013

    To catch up with the count numbers of this season, you can read up with this post of the 7th of september http://www.batumiraptorcount.org/news/catch-season: "This year’s autumn migration season has been under way for 21 days now, and so far everything points to another great experience for all...
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