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One altore across Europe – or how a Corsican bearded vultures chick flew from Bastia to Madrid to be adopted by a captive pair

The Corsican bearded vulture chick hatched artificially on the 18th of March, ...
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The black vulture in France in 2015 – summary

The black vulture went extinct in France in the beginning of the ...
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Drones and vultures – a curse or a blessing?

Several vulture researchers have been alerting to the impact drones may have ...
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One step closer to link bearded vulture populations in the Alps and the Pyrenees

Small supplementary feeding area established instrategic Aude region, promptly investigated by a ...
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Two of the four pairs of bearded vultures nesting in the Parc National de la Vanoise (Alps, France) have been successful

After the first breeding in the wild in 1997 – 11 years ...
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Our own Easter egg has hatched – Corsican bearded vulture chick hatches in the lab, a first in the world!

While most of you are eating – or looking for – Easter ...
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Vote for the bearded vulture – Nature 2000 awards

The project to reintroduce the bearded vulture in Andalusia – led by ...
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New vulture exhibition at the Allwetterzoo in Münster

The Allwetterzoo in Münster (Germany) just opened a new exhibition about vultures ...
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The Egyptian vulture in France: 88 pairs, but a very bad breeding year

The latest report on the situation of the endangered Egyptian vulture in ...
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New VCF protocol on bleaching bearded vulture feathers

The VCF has prepared a new protocol with guidelines on the best ...
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Bearded vulture egg extracted from nest in Corsica – first step to save this highly endangered population from extinction

The sole egg of one of the few remaining bearded vulture pairs ...
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22th national vulture conference – France this weekend

The yearly meeting of all the vulture conservationists in France – park ...
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21 chicks and counting – good breeding season in the bearded vulture captive breeding network – and a surprising and rare third clutch

So far there are already 21 chicks in the VCF coordinated captive ...
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Vultures killed – probably poisoned – in Cyprus. This incident is a blow to the efforts to recover the endangered island population of griffon vultures

At least 7 griffon vultures have been found dead in Cyrus since ...
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A wild bearded vulture found dead in the French Pyrenees – and a whole network of people mobilizes to find out what killed him!

On February 20th Pascal Borreill, a train driver, saw the body of ...
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Poison continues to kill masses of vultures in Africa and Asia – while at the same time their value is highlighted in yet another study

Two recent poisoning incidents killed hundreds of vultures in South Africa and ...
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Update on Roman & Herculis, the bearded vultures released last year in Alpi Marittime: Herculis lost its transmitter but is alive! Roman is now in Vanoise

The last few days were a bit stressfull for all the staff ...
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Do animals recognise their disabilities? Some evidence from bearded vulture Kirma

The VCF coordinates the bearded vulture captive breeding network, managed specifically for ...
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Egyptian vultures increasing in Catalonia

 While the European population of this bird of prey is generally declining, ...
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One more wintering Egyptian vulture caught and tagged in Extremadura

The Egyptian vulture is a partially migratory species across its vast global ...
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