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Release of an injured Griffon in LIFE RUPIS project area

On the 21st September a griffon vulture was released back to the ...
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Black vulture collided with plane landing in Mallorca

Recently the VCF website discussed the issue of air strikes between aircraft ...
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TV report on LIFE GYPCONNECT

A recent TV short report on the LIFE GYPCONNECT highlights the aims ...
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LIFE GYPCONNECT – LIFE14 NAT/FR/000050 – partners meet in Quillan (Aude, France) to evaluate work done and plan next phases of the project

More than 20 staff from the different partners of the EU-funded LIFE ...
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And suddenly… Egyptian vulture Rupis quickly migrated to Africa

Rupis – the subadult Egyptian vulture which was captured and tagged in ...
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Tragic news from captive-bred Egyptian vultures Regina and Lom – both drowned while trying to cross the Mediterranean

When Regina, and then Lom – two of the three captive bred ...
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Get out – these mountains are mine! Says the bearded vulture to the griffon vulture

Images of a violent fight between an adult bearded vulture and an ...
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Results of the bearded vulture breeding season in the Alps 2016 – 43 breeding pairs, 25 chicks fledged, best year ever!

After extinction in the beginning of the 20th century, bearded vultures started ...
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Black vulture shows up in Serbia again

Once widespread throughout the Balkans, the black vulture now breeds only in ...
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Kira is no longer flying

Kira, a 6 year old bearded vulture female that had been released in ...
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Second captive-bred Egyptian vulture released in Bulgaria is also migrating – Lom follows Regina, while the latter flies south to Cyprus!

Lom – the male captive-bred Egyptian vulture released in a hacking platform ...
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International vulture awareness day – griffons will be released this Saturday in Badajoz

As part of the International Vulture Awareness Day, the NGO AMUS – ...
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Regina – the captive-bred Egyptian vulture released in Bulgaria – is now in Turkey on its way south

Following their successful first flights from the hacking cavity, the three captive-bred ...
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192 black vultures fledged from nests in Andalucía (Spain) – the second best result ever since 1970!

The results of the Andalucía action plan for the conservation of the ...
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The International Vulture Awareness Day is today. Let´s all celebrate vultures!

This weekend will see another International Vulture Awareness Day (see http://www.vultureday.org/2016/) – ...
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Three captive-bred Egyptian vultures fledged successfully from their hacking cavity in Bulgaria

Just a few days after the first flight of the juvenile of ...
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Who will bring the Spring if the Egyptian vultures is extinct? See video

In Albania local legends says that cuckoo ride on the back of ...
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New paper on a new Gypaetinae vulture fossil species from China

We know from fossil records that what we call today old World ...
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Breaking news – vulture seen in London!

A vulture has been spotted today in central London – in the ...
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Collisions of griffons with commercial aircraft at Madrid airport

A letter recently published in Nature by Antoni Margalida (see below) discusses ...
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