Tag: gyphelp
How bearded vultures get their orange colour in the wild?
June 20, 2016
In order to better understand how and why bearded vultures get their ...
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Restoring bearded vultures across Europe – two more birds released in the Swiss Alps
May 31, 2016
Following the releases of bearded vultures in Corsica, Andalusia, and the Grands ...
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Vagrancy season: two young bearded vultures flying around northern Europe (UK and Denmark)
May 25, 2016
While the first ever bearded vulture to be seen in the UK ...
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Demonstrating the fitting of tags to bearded vultures using Marie-Antoinette
May 21, 2016
Short film about Marie-Antoinette, a bearded vulture in the specialized captive breeding ...
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Cimatella and Muntagnolu equipped with satellite tags
May 19, 2016
Cimatella (female) and Muntagnolu (male), the two young bearded vultures released in ...
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Young bearded vulture seen in Belgium
May 12, 2016
This week we received news that a young bearded vulture was seen ...
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Reintroducing bearded vultures to the wild – release season is starting soon!
May 1, 2016
This year the VCF and its partners will release 17 young bearded ...
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Bearded vulture in Europe – summary of the 2015 breeding season
April 29, 2016
Bearded vulture in Europe – summary of the 2015 breeding season Now ...
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New paper vindicates VCF methods – release of captive-bred bearded vultures the best method to restore populations
April 22, 2016
The VCF has been releasing captive-bred young bearded vultures in the Alps ...
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Dead bearded vulture found last year in Switzerland had been released in Vercors in 2012
April 10, 2016
In April 2015 a Swiss game warden called Toni Schmid found, with ...
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Two of the four pairs of bearded vultures nesting in the Parc National de la Vanoise (Alps, France) have been successful
March 26, 2016
After the first breeding in the wild in 1997 – 11 years ...
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New VCF protocol on bleaching bearded vulture feathers
March 17, 2016
The VCF has prepared a new protocol with guidelines on the best ...
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Do animals recognise their disabilities? Some evidence from bearded vulture Kirma
February 29, 2016
The VCF coordinates the bearded vulture captive breeding network, managed specifically for ...
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Bearded vultures in the Alps – Update on the breeding season 2015/2016: lots of new pairs established!
February 20, 2016
It is a very encouraging start into this year’s bearded vulture Alpine ...
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New bearded vulture pairs in the French Alps
February 16, 2016
With the breeding season in full swing, preliminary data about the bearded ...
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A new breeding pair of bearded vultures in Savoie (French Alps)
February 7, 2016
This year a new breeding pair has established itself in the Savoie ...
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Bearded vulture captive breeding (for conservation): 47 eggs and counting – and the first chicks!
February 3, 2016
So far, a total of 30 pairs of bearded vultures in the ...
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The structure of bearded vulture shells and implications for conservation
January 27, 2016
The results of a very interesting research done by Mauro Hernández from ...
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Conclusions and presentations of the seminar on lead poisoning and bearded vultures published
January 15, 2016
As part of the LIFE GYPHELP project, in which the VCF is ...
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Great Audio-book for children on the bearded vulture (in French)
January 14, 2016
ASTERS – the Conservatoire d´Espaces Naturels de Haute-Savoie, which works alongside the ...
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