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Vulture Conservation Foundation’s position on the proposal to legalize poison bait use in Bulgaria’s nature
The Bulgarian Council of Ministers might approve amendments in the Hunting and ...
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Book: A Vulture Landscape — Twelve Months in Extremadura
Through storytelling and beautiful imagery, Ian Parsons, the author of “A Vulture ...
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Cinereous Vulture population in Extremadura is booming, helping support reintroduction efforts in Bulgaria
The Cinereous Vulture population in Extremadura is soaring, with 837 breeding pairs ...
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Thousands of Africa’s vultures deliberately poisoned and killed – Letter to Science published!
More than 2000 Critically Endangered Hooded Vultures (Necrosyrtes monachus) lost their lives across ...
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Surprise GPS data received from Egyptian Vulture Rupis after nearly a year without information
We received an update about the movements of the first Egyptian Vulture ...
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Carcass filled with lead shot pellets: Young Bearded Vulture reintroduced this summer in the Grands Causses (France) illegally shot and killed
Yet another Bearded Vulture was shot and killed in the Grands Causses ...
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Bearded vulture in the UK: Speculations are over as genetic analysis reveals origin and sex
Hundreds if not thousands of people have been speculating about the origin ...
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The Vulture Conservation Foundation is hiring a Part-Time Financial Assistant
If you are an experienced Financial Assistant, are passionate about wildlife conservation ...
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World Migratory Bird Day: A closer look into the movements of the Egyptian Vulture — Europe’s only long-distance migratory vulture
On this World Migratory Bird Day, we will take a closer look into ...
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Bearded Vulture resurfaces in Lincolnshire, and we are closer to revealing the bird’s identity
The Bearded Vulture “Vigo” surprised us once again! After leaving Derbyshire and ...
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First study on the conservation status of vultures and raptors in Morocco reveals mortality hotspots
The report from the first national census campaign of Morocco’s daytime rupicolous raptors ...
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Pyrenean Bearded Vulture rescued three times and unable to return to the wild becomes part of the captive-breeding programme
A Bearded Vulture that hatched in Navarra in the Spanish Pyrenees last ...
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Plumage, bleached feathers and moulting: How we can tell apart Bearded Vultures in the wild
You hear us often talking about the age of certain Bearded Vultures ...
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Pair in Austria signals the start of the new Bearded Vulture breeding season in captivity
The 2019/20 Bearded Vulture breeding season has finished not a long time ...
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The Ambassador of Spain in Bulgaria visited the Green Balkans as part of the Vultures Back to LIFE project
The Ambassador of Spain in Bulgaria recently visited the Green Balkans Wildlife ...
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Griffon Vulture in Cyprus crashes with a car — the bird’s fate remains a mystery
A few days ago a Griffon Vulture collided with the windshield of ...
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The International Bearded Vulture Monitoring Network 2019 Annual Report
The International Bearded Vulture Monitoring Network’s 2019 Annual Report is now published, ...
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The latest movements of 58 wild Bearded Vultures across seven important European regions
The International Bearded Vulture Monitoring Network (IBM) monitors the Bearded Vultures across seven different ...
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The first movements of three GPS-tagged Cinereous Vultures in Portugal that recently fledged
The Vulture Conservation Foundation, alongside its partners, equipped three Cinereous Vulture nestlings ...
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Bearded Vulture “Vigo” left Derbyshire and is heading south — where to now?
It is not unknown for young Bearded Vultures to leave their mountainous ...
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