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Mourning bearded vulture Durzon

Two weeks ago, Léa Giraud, the coordinator of the LPO team in ...
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Korea peninsula – cinereous vultures know no borders too!

The cinereous vulture has an extremely large distribution range across Europe, Asia ...
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The African vulture crisis continues – yet another mass poisoning of vultures (and carnivores) in Tanzania

The Vulture Multi-species Action Plan (Vulture MsAP), approved recently in the conference ...
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Egyptian vulture Douro has now crossed the Atlas Mountains and is around Marrakesh – soon he will be in Gibraltar

Douro – an Egyptian vulture captured and tagged at the Escalhão supplementary ...
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15 Important facts about the use of poison in Portugal

The Vulture Multi-species Action Plan (Vulture MsAP), approved recently in the conference ...
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Cinereous vulture tagged and released back to the wild in Jordan – in images

We have recently written about the first ever cinereous vulture which was ...
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Somewhere in Oman, there is an Egyptian vulture looking for a name – will you help us choose one?

Since January, there is one more Egyptian vulture whose movements you can ...
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What are Egyptian vultures doing in Oman? – Research and conservation action supported by the VCF

A stronghold for several species of vultures, Oman holds an important resident ...
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Egyptian vulture Douro starts its migration to Europe!

Douro – an Egyptian vulture captured and tagged at the Escalhão supplementary ...
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Bearded vulture Roc Genèse is in Buseu!

Roc Genèse, the first wild bearded vulture nestling ever tagged in the ...
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When age does not matter – 48 years old bearded vulture is still breeding

Vultures are long lived birds, and in captivity some birds may reach ...
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Cinereous vulture flyway action plan featured in this month´s Quercus magazine

This month´s edition of the Spanish nature conservation magazine Quercus features an ...
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An update on the bearded vulture captive-breeding season – lots of eggs, chicks hatching now

Bearded vultures start breeding in Europe earlier than any other bird species, ...
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Good news from the Alps – early start of the breeding season and already two new pairs of bearded vultures!

While the captive bearded vultures are keeping us really busy, their wild ...
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Italy – bearded vulture symposium and field count in Stelvio to be organised in March

20 years after the first bearded vulture pair bred successfully in the ...
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More Andean condors poisoned in Colombia, while Carbofuran confirmed in Argentina

At the same time that the results of the toxicological analysis from ...
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First for Jordan – cinereous vulture tagged and released back to the wild – He is now wintering in Saudi

Cinereous vultures are scarce winter visitors or passage migrants in the middle ...
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Whooshh! An adult bearded vulture alights near a webcam in the Gran Paradiso National Park

Bearded vultures are now incubating their eggs across the Alps, including in ...
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New vulture book for children (in German) – Geier Georg auf der Flucht

A new book for children on vultures, written by Rainer Nahrendorf, was ...
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Bearded vultures – and one of the most remarkable wildlife comeback stories of our times – features in Geographical

Photographer Luke Massey and feature writer Katie Stacey have been shadowing some ...
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