Category: News
An analysis of poisoning cases in the Portuguese side of the Douro canyon
January 15, 2017
As part of the LIFE RUPIS project, the Portuguese nature conservation agency ...
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News from the bearded vulture pairs in Andalusia: Hortelano & Marchena are in fine breeding plumage and going through all the breeding antics (see video)
January 14, 2017
The breeding season 2014-15 was a milestone in the bearded vulture reintroduction ...
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Better and better at our bearded vulture captive breeding network – mortality rate decreases significantly while the average age at death increases!
January 13, 2017
The bearded vulture breeding season is in full swing – both in ...
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135 pairs of Endangered Egyptian vultures in the Douro canyon
January 12, 2017
The results of the exhaustive breeding census of Egyptian vultures in the ...
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The number of griffon vultures breeding and roosting in Eastern Rhodopes continues to increase
January 11, 2017
The breeding colony of griffon vultures in the Eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria) continues ...
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Girun and Volcaire doing well – and have been celebrated by a Côtes du Rhône wine!
January 9, 2017
You can now drink some good wine (see review below), with a ...
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News from LIFE GYPCONNECT: Bearded vulture Roc Genèse is a male, is now in Spain, and its parents are breeding again
January 8, 2017
Roc Genèse, the first wild bearded vulture nestling ever tagged in the ...
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News from the LIFE Re vultures – griffon and black vultures from the Rodopes-Dadia area (Bulgaria/Greece) tracked
January 6, 2017
A total of 7 griffon vultures – four adults and three young ...
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Tracking bearded vultures in Nepal – new research project by Tulsi Subedi
January 4, 2017
Bearded vultures occur from Western Europe to China, and from North Africa ...
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Bearded vultures in our captive breeding network kept laying eggs during Xmas and new Year!
January 3, 2017
While most of us took some time off to celebrate Christmas or ...
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Happy New Year from the VCF – thank you for your support during 2016
December 31, 2016
Soon the team here at VCF will switch off their computers and ...
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A good end to a sad story – Adult bearded vulture found injured and lead-poisoned in the French Pyrenees successfully rehabilitated and released
December 30, 2016
On the 29th of September staff from the French Pyrenean municipally of ...
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Adonis – the bearded vulture last recorded in Romania, where a beer was named after it, is now back in the French Pre-Alps!
December 27, 2016
Bearded vulture Adonis – a young male released in 2014 in the ...
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The Corsican bearded vulture chick extracted from an unproductive nest earlier this year is a female and is doing well!
December 26, 2016
Last February a team from the Parc Naturel Regional de Corse and ...
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Egyptian vulture ringed in France observed in Sicily
December 19, 2016
The Italian population of the globally endangered Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus) is ...
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Griffon tagged and released in Sardinia under the Life Under the project Griffon Wings project
December 18, 2016
A rehabilitated griffon vulture was tagged and released this weekend in Sardinia, ...
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Bearded vultures in the Alps are also breeding!
December 16, 2016
Following close on the steps of their cousins in the VCF-managed bearded ...
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News from Rupis: still in Mali
December 15, 2016
Rupis – the subadult Egyptian vulture which was captured and tagged in ...
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First bearded vulture in Israel for more than 10 years – and a bounty of black vultures too!
December 14, 2016
Some rare and unusual vultures have been seen in Israel this winter ...
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The Junta de Andalusia handed over to the VCF 7 Black Vultures for the reintroduction project in France
December 13, 2016
Yesterday the regional government of Andalusia handed over 7 black vultures (Aegypius ...
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