One million migrating raptors dodge illegal hunters above Georgia's Black Sea coast
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One million migrating raptors dodge illegal hunters above Georgia's Black Sea coast
Hoekstra co-chairs Batumi Raptor Count (BRC), an international volunteer organisation that counts the million-plus birds of prey that fly the route every autumn, where the Black Sea and Caucasus mountains form a migration bottleneck. "It's the third-largest place in the world in terms of raptor migration," said the 34-year-old Dutchman from Utrecht University. "Wherever you put your binoculars in the sky, there are birds." Honey buzzards dominat…
Every fall, more than a million raptors walk along the Georgian coast of the Black Sea before reaching Africa. The volunteers who identify them... Read more A million raptors in the Georgian sky, under the fire of hunters appeared first on Le Singulier.
Mr. Hoekstra co-chairs Batumi Raptor Count (BRC), an international volunteer organization that estimates that more than a million raptors take this route every fall, creating a migratory "bottleneck" at the junction of the...
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Standing on a verdant hill above Georgia’s Black Sea coast, ornithologist Bart Hoekstra looked out over one of the world’s greatest wildlife spectacles unfolding before him then gunshots pierced the air. One million migrating raptors dodge illegal hunters above Georgia’s Black Sea coast Hoekstra co-chairs Batumi Raptor Count , an international volunteer organisation that counts ...
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