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Applications open for the 2026 Flyway Monitoring Traineeship
With the preparations for the 2026 Autumn count well underway, we are happy to announce opening applications for the BRC Flyway Monitoring Traineeship.
The 18th Batumi Raptor Count
Call for Counters
We are looking for volunteers to join us for the 18th Batumi Raptor Count, between August 12th and October 21st, 2026.
Photo: Video: Eva Drukker
Autumn 2025
2025 Autumn Report
As if nature was making up for not making the million mark last year, we counted no less than a staggering 1.5 million raptors this year. We have more — way more — than just raw numbers in our new, richly illustrated autumn report.
Photo: Video: Nina Bukovac
Autumn 2026
This season we have counted …
Our autumn count runs from August 12th until October 21st.
Interested in the daily and annual results?
Photo: Video: Bart Hoekstra
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Kite Optics sponsorship and 10% discount
We’re grateful to Kite Optics for supporting the Batumi Raptor Count with high-quality optical equipment. As part of their sponsorship, Kite offers a 10% discount on all webshop orders using the code BRC2500KT at checkout.
Who we are
More than a million reasons to count
Batumi Raptor Count (BRC) monitors and promotes the Batumi bottleneck in Georgia, where over 1,000,000 migrating raptors funnel through each autumn. Our annual counts serve as a vehicle for research, conservation and education.
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We rely on your support to continue our monitoring and conservation work. Find out how your contribution can make a difference.
Support usMigration count data
Interested in the day-to-day numbers? Dive into the daily and annual results of over a decade of raptor migration counts.
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Become a part of the BRC family
Every season we welcome volunteer counters and trainees from all over the world to the stations above Sakhalvasho and Shuamta. There is no better place to learn raptor identification — and no better community to do it with.
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Follow our work throughout the year: subscribe to our newsletter for a few bundled updates a year, or follow us on social media for news and highlights as the migration unfolds. Of course, for the actual day-to-day results of our counts, the daily count updates are the place to go.
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