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All together for Vultures: Immediate action prevents possible wind turbine collision for Cinereous Vulture Carrascalinho in Spain

Cinereous Vulture Carrascalinho has been flying in the face of danger for ...
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The mystery of Egyptian Vulture Douro’s lost GPS transmitter

Egyptian Vulture Douro’s transmitter (c) Antonio Monteiro At the end of March ...
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Five out of five vultures return to the Douro Canyon on Portugal-Spain border from Africa

Five of the Egyptian Vultures being tracked for the LIFE Rupis project ...
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Second pair of Cinereous Vultures begins nesting in artificial platform in the Douro Canyon

Artifical nest constructed for Cinereous Vultures (c) José Jambas/Oriolus A second pair ...
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The LIFE Rupis International Meeting sharing good practice in Egyptian Vulture conservation

This week as part of our LIFE Rupis project led by Sociedade ...
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Spring migration is underway for LIFE Rupis Egyptian Vultures

Egyptian Vuture in flight (c) Boris Belchev The Egyptian Vultures of the ...
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Cinereous Vulture fitted with a GPS transmitter released back into the wild in Portugal as part of LIFE Rupis project

A young Cinereous Vulture found exhausted back in October and released in ...
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Poison strikes in the Douro canyon, killing adult breeding Egyptian vultures

Inspecting the remains of the poisoned Egyptian vultures (c) ICNF Two adult ...
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Egyptian vultures Rupis and Douro reached their wintering grounds 

The migration of Europe’s only migratory vulture, the Egyptian vulture, is nearing ...
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Happy ending for Portuguese cinereous vulture pair that lost chick to fire last year

Cinereous vulture chick fledging in the Douro International Natural Park After losing ...
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Egyptian vultures are migrating to Africa!

August has just finished and most of the Egyptian vultures breeding in ...
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LIFE Rupis – Conserving Egyptian vultures in Portugal and Spain

They are Europe’s smallest vultures, and worryingly out of the four species ...
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First Egyptian vulture tagged with a GPS in LIFE Rupis project in the Douro Canyon resurfaces (again)

Rupis with a GPS transmitter on his back Back in 2016, Rupis was ...
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Tracking Egyptian vultures in the Douro region of Spain and Portugal

The LIFE Rupis  project aims to strengthen the populations of the Egyptian ...
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LIFE Rupis: Investigating the movements of breeding Egyptian vultures in the Douro region.

We recently posted about the migration routes of the Egyptian vultures that ...
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Black vulture chick doing well in Douro Valley

Fantastic news from the black vultures of the Douro Valley. Following a ...
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Egyptian vulture Rupis invades the schools – a day with the LIFE Rupis environmental education programme

School class from Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo on a field visit to ...
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Celebrating the Egyptian vulture on World Migratory Birds Day, 2018.

World Migratory Bird Day is being celebrated this weekend, 12-13th May 2018, ...
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Update on Vulture Research

Latest vulture science analysed: Movementsof Egyptian vultures in the Middle East and ...
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Banning Diclofenac in Portugal – light at the end of the tunnel?

Last week the Portuguese Parliament approved a motion recommending the Portuguese Government ...
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