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Good breeding season for bearded vultures in the Alps – more pairs (34) and one more wild born chicks fledged (20) than last year
After extinction in the beginning of the 20th century, bearded vultures started ...
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Agata drowns in the Mediterranean while Sara has crossed the Messina strait to Sicily – in the meantime 4 other captive bred Egyptian vultures were released in
Agata and Sara, the two female Egyptian vultures born in captivity, had ...
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New paper published on the role of supplementary feeding on the conservation of Egyptian vultures in France
Egyptian vultures are declining almost everywhere across its range, and due to ...
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Today it is the International Vulture Awareness Day, and VCF has a message – Ban killer drug diclofenac or Europe’s vultures may face extinction!
The VCF warns that today´s International Vulture Awareness Day could be one ...
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Spreading the word – vultures are beautiful, necessary and endangered! International Vulture Awareness Day, 5th September
Vultures play a vital ecological role in our ecosystems, yet they face ...
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Help spread awareness on vultures – share your vulture pictures with National Geographic!
As part of the International Vulture Awareness Day (5th September, see here), ...
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News on the two captive bred Egyptian vultures released last week in Italy
The two young Egyptian vultures released last week in Puglia – part ...
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Two captive bred Egyptian vultures released in Italy
Last week two young Egyptian vultures bred in captivity were released in ...
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The first baby Griffon Vulture born in the Balkan Mountains for almost a century baptized as Michel – a deserved celebration of one of VCF´s mentors
For more than a decade our Bulgarian colleagues have been dreaming about ...
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Vultures in West and Central Africa threatened by trade for bushmeat and fetish
We already knew that the situation with vultures in Africa was dire ...
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Egyptian Vultures found breeding in Niger
The Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus) – one of the smallest vultures in ...
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New paper discusses supplementary feeding programs for European vultures, and makes recommendations for the management of vulture feeding sites
Ideally, all scavenger species, including vultures, should survive based primarily on natural ...
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New paper published on risks of anti-parasitic veterinary products to bearded vultures
As scavengers that often feed on the carcasses of domestic cattle, vultures ...
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At least six black vultures found dead near waste treatment plant in central Spain
In the last days of July the conservation NGO “Colectivo Azálvaro” have ...
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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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