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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Schils is back at home – or how bearded vultures promote excellent international cooperation!
Schils, the young bearded vulture released last year in the Swiss Alps, ...
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Bearded vultures released in Alpi Marittime got GPS tags – and a visit by an old gentleman!
The two male young bearded vultures released on the 6th of June ...
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