‘Fight for Flight’
During our 2023 Autumn count, Heather Fortune volunteered with us. "Fight for Flight" is the title of her year-long solo expedition, contributing to ornithological research and conservation across Europe and Asia.
Heather presenting her work at the Royal Geographical Society’s Expedition and Fieldwork Festival.
From ringing birds in the Mongolian wilderness to conserving Sarus Cranes in Cambodia, and monitoring raptor migration in Batumi, Heather's journey promotes birds and their conservation. Her initiative is an art-science collaboration aimed at inspiring people from diverse backgrounds to engage with birds and their research and conservation.
For each project she visited, Heather created infographics that she designed herself. For BRC, she focused on analyzing the demographics of our volunteers over the years — a topic we have long wanted to explore but never managed to do. We were delighted when Heather proposed this idea! The infographic covers aspects of participant diversity, including gender and age distribution, new versus returning counters, country of residence, and country income levels of our volunteers from 2008 to 2023.
Links to Heather’s work:
Blog post about Heather’s experience at BRC
Interview with BRC 2023 coordinator Pamela Carvajal
Interview with BRC team member Eva Drukker
Blog post about illegal hunting in the Batumi bottleneck
Presentation by Heather on her Fight for Flight project
The infographic made by Heather Fortune, based on the participants between 2008 and 2023.
