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The breeding season for the Cinereous Vulture pair in the Green Balkans’ rescue centre has begun
The breeding season for the Cinereous Vulture pair in the Green Balkans’ Wildlife ...
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Missing Cinereous Vulture Bessie found dead after collision against power lines
Discovering Bessie’s carcass On 24 November, a hunter discovered the body of ...
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Research review: Technical-scientific order for the analysis of the diet of Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) in the Douro Canyon
A study led by Associação Transumância e Natureza (ATN) and carried out within the ...
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More Egyptian Vultures tagged with GPS transmitters in Ethiopia and new insights into the threats they face revealed
A joint team of EWNHS, BirdLife Africa, external experts, RSPB and BSPB headed towards Afar in Ethiopia once ...
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Brilliant photograph of an encounter between Bearded Vulture Carmen and Griffon Vulture in Barronies
Bearded Vulture Carmen, one of the nine Bearded Vultures released within the LIFE GypConnect project in ...
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Prison, fine and hunting disqualification for a hunter who poisoned four vultures in Spain
Some justice was recently served for four vultures that were killed from ...
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Griffon Vulture pair lays the first clutch of the year in Sardinia
The Griffon Vulture egg laying period kicks off in Sardinia as the LIFE ...
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Bearded Vulture (c) Hansruedi Weyrich
The 2019/20 Bearded Vulture breeding season in the wild got off to an early ...
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What duties do Egyptian Vulture pairs share during the breeding period?
The Egyptian Vulture New LIFE project recently published a study revealing insights into the ...
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Weak Griffon Vulture rescued in the Var (France)
On 8 January 2020, a young Griffon Vulture arrived at Le Centre ...
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Released Egyptian Vulture Kate found dead in Western Sicily after spending only two months on the island
Captive-bred Egyptian Vulture Kate was found dead in Western Sicily in early ...
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Necropsy performed on two Griffon Vultures in Bulgaria
Two dead Griffon Vultures were recently admitted to the Green Balkans’ Wildlife Rehabilitation and ...
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The Stolen Wildlife Campaign just released the second series of awareness photographs
The Vulture Conservation Foundation (VCF) supports the Stolen Wildlife campaign to help raise awareness ...
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The GPS movements of the first-ever wild Portuguese Cinereous Vulture tagged stopped. What happened?
During the summer of 2018, we tagged the first wild Cinereous Vulture nestling in ...
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The Bearded Vulture breeding trio in Ecrins laid an egg for the 3rd consecutive year
In 2018, vulture lovers and conservationists rejoiced when after more than a century of ...
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Competition: Win a GPS tag – suitable for Griffon or Cinereous Vultures
We teamed up with Ecotone Telemetry to give away a GPS transmitter to a ...
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Cinereous Vulture in Spain killed by ingesting illegal poisoned bait
Vultures’ biggest threat struck again, this time killing a Cinereous Vulture found near Madrid, ...
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Gulper, ripper and scrapper: anatomy of the neck in three species of vultures
A recently published journal analysed the highly complex neck anatomy of three ...
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Five feeding sites built in the Greek part of Rhodope Mountains as part of LIFE Re-Vultures
The primary conservation objective of the LIFE Re-Vultures project in the Greek part of ...
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Another mass poisoning in Zululand causes alarm for the future of vultures in the region
Unfortunately, yet another mass poisoning incident occurred in Africa, ending 2019 on ...
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