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Fly Esperanza fly!

First bearded vulture born in the wild in Andalucia this century flew ...
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Bearded vultures in Corsica and in Crete – an update

Bearded vultures were at one point confined to the Pyrenees, Corsica and ...
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Call for volunteers for the 2015 Alpine summering griffon vulture census – 22 August 2015

Since 2010 a census of summering griffon vultures has been carried out, ...
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Another Egyptian vulture poisoned in Greece

Only a few days after 70+ Egyptian vulture experts from all over ...
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New paper published on feather moult in bearded vultures

Bearded vultures only start breeding after they are 7-8 years in life, ...
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The bearded vulture in the French Pyrenees in 2014

The annual report on the results of all the monitoring and research ...
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Griffon with tongue protruding from the neck observed in France

On the 26th July Francesco Panuello saw and photographed 6 griffon vultures ...
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The first wild bearded vulture chick to be born in southern Spain in the last 30 years already has a name: Esperanza (Hope)

Following a public vote organized by the Junta de Andalucia, the bearded ...
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Tizón is spending its first summer in Mauritania

Last time (in May) we gave you news of Tizón – the ...
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Bearded vulture seen in Corfu- rare observation of this species in the Balkan Peninsula, where it is extinct

A second-calendar year bearded vulture – a bird born in 2014, has ...
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And it makes 15! Last young bearded vulture of the year to be released tomorrow in Andalucía

Tomorrow the last bearded vulture to be released this year in the ...
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Name the first wild bearded vulture chick to be born in southern Spain in the last 30 years!

To celebrate the first successful breeding in the wild of bearded vultures ...
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Proposed status changes for six species of African vulture

Following the publication  of a recent paper by Ogada et al. (2015) ...
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Poison and lead are the main cause of vulture deaths in the French Pyrenees

Knowing causes of mortality of biodiversity, especially of rare and endangered species, ...
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The view from the other VCF office

Each year, during the summer months, we spend several weeks up in ...
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First black vulture chick hatched in the wild in southern Portugal for more than 40 years ringed and tagged

On the 14th July the black vulture chick hatched from one of ...
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Captive breeding in the Egyptian vulture – a relevant conservation tool for future reintroduction or restocking projects?

The reintroduction of vultures to former distribution range has been a very ...
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Declaration from the workshop to develop a flyway action plan for the Egyptian vulture populations in the Balkans, Turkey, Central Asia & the Caucasus published

The declaration from the recently held workshop to develop an international species ...
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Restoring the bearded vulture across Europe – another great season! Most of the released young have now fledged

So far the VCF and its local partners have released 14 birds ...
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First bearded vulture to be born in the wild in Andalusia in the 21st century marked with GPS and rings

The first bearded vulture chick to be born in the wild in ...
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