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Bearded vultures in our captive breeding network kept laying eggs during Xmas and new Year!
While most of us took some time off to celebrate Christmas or ...
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Happy New Year from the VCF – thank you for your support during 2016
Soon the team here at VCF will switch off their computers and ...
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A good end to a sad story – Adult bearded vulture found injured and lead-poisoned in the French Pyrenees successfully rehabilitated and released
On the 29th of September staff from the French Pyrenean municipally of ...
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Adonis – the bearded vulture last recorded in Romania, where a beer was named after it, is now back in the French Pre-Alps!
Bearded vulture Adonis – a young male released in 2014 in the ...
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The Corsican bearded vulture chick extracted from an unproductive nest earlier this year is a female and is doing well!
Last February a team from the Parc Naturel Regional de Corse and ...
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Egyptian vulture ringed in France observed in Sicily
The Italian population of the globally endangered Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus) is ...
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Griffon tagged and released in Sardinia under the Life Under the project Griffon Wings project
A rehabilitated griffon vulture was tagged and released this weekend in Sardinia, ...
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Bearded vultures in the Alps are also breeding!
Following close on the steps of their cousins in the VCF-managed bearded ...
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News from Rupis: still in Mali
Rupis – the subadult Egyptian vulture which was captured and tagged in ...
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First bearded vulture in Israel for more than 10 years – and a bounty of black vultures too!
Some rare and unusual vultures have been seen in Israel this winter ...
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The Junta de Andalusia handed over to the VCF 7 Black Vultures for the reintroduction project in France
Yesterday the regional government of Andalusia handed over 7 black vultures (Aegypius ...
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First eggs of the season in the bearded vulture captive-breeding network!
On the 5th of December, between 11:15 and 11:30 h, one of ...
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Migration bottlenecks of Balkan Egyptian vultures Neophron percnopterus tracked by satellite telemetry
Recent spatial analysis on the migration routes of 14 Egyptian vultures (both ...
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The bearded vulture breeding season is starting across Europe´s mountain ranges!
Winter has not yet started, yet bearded vultures are already starting a ...
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Landscape factors affecting territory occupancy and breeding success of Egyptian Vultures on the Balkan Peninsula: new paper
Data on territory occupancy and breeding success for 87 different territories of ...
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“Who tagged this griffon?”
This question is asked countless times in the specialized email lists or ...
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After failing in the last 4 years, the only bearded vulture pair in Andorra successfully fledged a chick this year – see the incredible images
On the 24th of June, at 10:04 a.m., a 119 days old ...
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Lead poisoning and vultures: new scientific contributions
Lead poisoning is a well-known threat to vultures and other scavengers, and ...
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Annual bearded vulture meeting 2016 – Conclusions
The annual bearded vulture organised by the VCF – one of ...
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Juan José Sánchez Artés (1962-2016) – celebratory video
This short video celebrating the life and the achievements of Juan José ...
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