Azerbaijan, or the Land of Fire, as it was historically called because of the natural gas fires on the Absheron Peninsula, stretches along the western coast of the world's largest lake, known as the Caspian Sea, and along the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Mountains. Due to geography, and a high variety of landscapes and habitats it is [...]

Every autumn Batumi hosts over 1,000,000 raptors and other migratory birds originating from the huge landmass of the East Europe and West Siberia, making a rout to their wintering grounds in Africa through the East Black Sea Coast and the Lesser Caucasus Mountains, passing the Batumi Bottleneck, which is not wider than 10 kilometers. The flight is extremely diverse in both sense; number and [...]

The foothills of the Lesser Caucasus Mountains along the eastern coast of the Black Sea in the republic of Georgia, forms on one of the world's biggest corridors for migrating birds, and chiefly for the impressive legions of over a million large soaring birds of prey and many relatively smaller raptors of up to 35 different species. The [...]