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Adjara hosts International Birdwatching Festival

Adjara hosts International Birdwatching Festival

On the 3rd-8th of September, Adjara is hosting International Birdwatching Festival. In the framework of the event, foreign and Georgian ornithologists and volunteers from different countries will visit the region. Every day, professional experts and guides will hold cognitive and entertaining excursions for the guests of the festival in the bird watching areas such as Chorokhi delta, Chaisubani and Sakhalvasho villages, Batumi Boulevard, Batumi Port and Kolkheti National Park. Lectures and presentations will also be given and will be opened to any interested person.

The invited group of Georgian students and experts, tourist agencies, journalists, representatives of the certain university faculty, students and schoolchildren will attend the festival. At the end of the festival, participants and invited guests together will summerize and compare the results of the birdwatching season 2018.

The Festival has been held in the region since 2012 and it contributes to the development of the birdwatching tourism in Adjara, local economic welfare and conservation of migrating raptors. The festival is organized by the Tourism Product Development Agency.

One of the most popular directions of eco-tourism – Birdwatching has got a high potential in Adjara. The Black Sea coast, particularly, the vicinity of Batumi is known as the “Eastern Black Sea Migration Corridor”.

 More than 1 000 000 raptors migrate through the corridor annually and the area has one of the highest volume of raptor migration. It, actually, ranks third in the world and, for that reason, it attracts ornithologists, volunteers and eco-tourists from different countries of the world. The birdwatching season in Adjara opens from August 15 and continues up to October 16.

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