Tag: rupis
All together for Vultures: Immediate action prevents possible wind turbine collision for Cinereous Vulture Carrascalinho in Spain
July 18, 2019
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
May 28, 2019
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
March 27, 2019
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
March 21, 2019
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
February 28, 2019
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
February 16, 2019
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
January 24, 2019
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
November 15, 2018
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
October 25, 2018
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
September 14, 2018
Cinereous vulture chick fledging in the Douro International Natural Park After losing ...
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Egyptian vultures are migrating to Africa!
September 4, 2018
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
August 30, 2018
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)
August 24, 2018
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
July 25, 2018
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.
June 3, 2018
We recently posted about the migration routes of the Egyptian vultures that ...
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Black vulture chick doing well in Douro Valley
May 22, 2018
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
May 20, 2018
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.
May 12, 2018
World Migratory Bird Day is being celebrated this weekend, 12-13th May 2018, ...
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Update on Vulture Research
April 27, 2018
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?
April 21, 2018
Last week the Portuguese Parliament approved a motion recommending the Portuguese Government ...
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