BRC at the ECCB

This week, three board members are representing the BRC at the European Conference for Conservation Biology in Glasgow, Scotland. Johannes will present his assessment of the hunting on the migrating raptor populations that pass the bottleneck, this friday afternoon. And you can find Brecht, Danny and Johannes next to the poster highlighting our conservation efforts.

ARDEA accepts article on Batumi raptor migration

The Dutch ornithological journal Ardea has accepted our manuscript South West Georgia: an important bottleneck for raptor migration during autumn. The article documents the 2008-2009 surveys, which established the east Black Sea bottleneck as on of the most important in the world. It also includes a section on phenology of raptor migration in Batumi, and discusses the potential of the site for the detection of large-scale population trends.

BSc Thesis Michael Tholin on weather related Kazbegi migration patterns…

Hello everyone,

a while ago we announced the analysis of migration intensity and locality in function of weather at the Batumi bottleneck as a Msc. Thesis project by Jasper Wehrmann.

BRC has now also agreed to support a Bsc. Thesis project by Michael Tholin at Lund University (Sweden). He already has extensive experience in migration counts at both Batumi and Kazbegi and is therefore very familiar with migration patterns in these places. Michael will perform analysis under expert guidance at his university from remote-sensing images and weather and migration data. The latter will be provided in detail by BRC. 

We will keep you up to date of major advances in these projects throughout the year.

Kind regards,

the BRC Team