Dr. Rainer Raab, an Austrian national, is an ecologist, with a life-long vocation and action in the field of nature conservation. He studied Zoology at the University Vienna. Since 1991 he did numerous dragonfly and bird related projects for different clients with the focus on cross-border conservation project for the Great Bustard. Rainer Raab had his first sighting of the Great Bustard out of private interest already in the years 1990 and 1991 in Marchfeld. Since spring 1999 until summer 2014 he spent more than 6.500 hours in the field (private) in the Austrian Bustard areas and is still excited about each and every Great Bustard sighting.  Since 2014, Rainer Raab has been intensively concerned with the subject of bird telemetry, both in Austria and in the neighboring countries and meanwhile all over Europe (and partly also in Asia). From July 2014 he equipped together with a lot of cooperation partners with special loggers more than 3,000 red kites in Europe and more than 65 Great Bustards in Austria and Hungary.

From February 2001 to September 2022, he was working as the “Technical Office for Biology”. Since September 2022 he is the CEO of the TB Raab Ltd. 

On his limited spare time, Rainer spends time with ‘his’ Great Bustards in central Europe, but time to time, he also enjoys riding his horse and walking with his dog.