Batumi Birding

Batumi Birding is the tour-running arm of the Batumi Raptor Count conservation project on Georgia's Black Sea coast. The 2008 inaugural count famously logged over 800,000 raptors at this poorly known bottleneck, and the organisation now combines monitoring with guided birding to fund and showcase its conservation work in the Caucasus. Trips range from focused migration weeks on the Batumi bottleneck to broader Caucasus itineraries taking in the high mountains of Kazbegi and Svaneti for snowcocks and rosefinches, the eastern steppes for Imperial Eagles, the Javakheti plateau, Vardzia gorge and the Kolkhic forests of western Georgia. Hiking, skiing and biking add-ons are offered alongside the birding core.