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Guidelines for feeding bearded vultures in captivity are now also available in French
100 years after going extinct in the Alps, the bearded vulture is ...
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Observarribas is here!
The 1st edition of Observarribas, a festival of bird watching and outdoor ...
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New paper on guidelines for evaluation and treatment of lead poisoning of wild raptors
Lead poisoning is a threat to birds, particularly scavenging birds of prey, ...
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Looking for (bearded vulture) Kilian
Kilian is an immature bearded vulture released in Austria in 2014 (Hohe ...
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Two adult Egyptian vultures have been captured and tagged in the Douro – another great milestone in the LIFE RUPIS project
In the late afternoon of the 12th June, a team from the ...
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What have Jana and Tempestosa, the two griffons tagged in Sardinia, been up to?
The young female griffon vultures that have been released the 9th of ...
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Two more bearded vultures released yesterday in Andalusia
This year a total of 6 bearded vultures will be released in ...
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Saving the bearded vulture in Corsica – Luna and Ercu released last weekend
Last Sunday the 3rd of June, two young bearded vultures born within ...
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Diet of Egyptian vulture in Sicily
A new paper researching the Dietary habits of Egyptian vultures in Sicily ...
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Two young Spanish bearded vultures will be released in the Swiss Mountains today
For the third year in a row, two young bearded vultures will ...
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5 more bearded vultures released back into the wild yesterday by VCF and its partners – 2 in Vercors (Pre-Alps), 2 in Corsica and 1 in Andalucia
This year the VCF and its partners are hoping to release 18 ...
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Adult Egyptian vulture released in the Douro after being found weakened
On May 29, a weakened adult Egyptian vulture was picked up by ...
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Great news from Andalusia – the two breeding pairs of bearded vulture continue to raise their young in Cazorla!
Last January we were very happy to announce that a second bearded ...
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7th bearded vulture of 2017 to be released in Grands Causses tomorrow – 11 still to go!
Following successful releases in Grands Causses , Baronnies, and Andalusia, the 4th ...
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Dutch birders get Lucky! Bearded vulture released in Austria last year delights birdwatchers across the Netherlands
On the 17th of May, a young bearded vulture left the Alps ...
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One young bearded vulture was released in Cazorla – the first of six this year
After successful releases in Grands Causses and Baronnies, the first of six ...
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Help needed for translation of Der Falke magazine from German to English
VCF is looking for volunteer translators (preferably native English speakers who can ...
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New supplementary feeding point established in the LIFE RUPIS project– and almost immediately up to 10 Egyptian vultures fed there!
The project LIFE RUPIS aims to strength the populations of Egyptian Vulture ...
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A first for Sweden – young, probably wild, bearded vulture seen in the country
A young Bearded Vulture was seen near Jönköping in Sweden on Monday ...
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Egyptian vultures also seem to favour mud bathing to gain colour – but why?
One of the most fascinating – and mysterious, features of the animal ...
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