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Black vulture shows up in Serbia again
Once widespread throughout the Balkans, the black vulture now breeds only in ...
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Kira is no longer flying
Kira, a 6 year old bearded vulture female that had been released in ...
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Second captive-bred Egyptian vulture released in Bulgaria is also migrating – Lom follows Regina, while the latter flies south to Cyprus!
Lom – the male captive-bred Egyptian vulture released in a hacking platform ...
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International vulture awareness day – griffons will be released this Saturday in Badajoz
As part of the International Vulture Awareness Day, the NGO AMUS – ...
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Regina – the captive-bred Egyptian vulture released in Bulgaria – is now in Turkey on its way south
Following their successful first flights from the hacking cavity, the three captive-bred ...
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192 black vultures fledged from nests in Andalucía (Spain) – the second best result ever since 1970!
The results of the Andalucía action plan for the conservation of the ...
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The International Vulture Awareness Day is today. Let´s all celebrate vultures!
This weekend will see another International Vulture Awareness Day (see http://www.vultureday.org/2016/) – ...
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Three captive-bred Egyptian vultures fledged successfully from their hacking cavity in Bulgaria
Just a few days after the first flight of the juvenile of ...
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Who will bring the Spring if the Egyptian vultures is extinct? See video
In Albania local legends says that cuckoo ride on the back of ...
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New paper on a new Gypaetinae vulture fossil species from China
We know from fossil records that what we call today old World ...
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Breaking news – vulture seen in London!
A vulture has been spotted today in central London – in the ...
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Collisions of griffons with commercial aircraft at Madrid airport
A letter recently published in Nature by Antoni Margalida (see below) discusses ...
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Decline of Indian vultures forced the Parsis to change their traditions and accept cremations as an alternative to sky burial
Most people with an interest in conservation have heard by now about ...
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How are the three captive-bred Egyptian vultures released in Bulgaria doing? An update from the field
Recently, three young captive-bred Egyptian vultures were put in an artificial nest ...
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New film on the release of bearded vultures Lucky and Charlie in Hohe Tauern National Park (Austria)
The first young bearded vultures were released in the nationalpark Hohe Tauern ...
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Update on the endangered Canary Islands Egyptian vulture (Guirre)
The Guirre is an endangered, sedentary subspecies of Egyptian vulture, with a ...
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Bearded vulture Roc Genèse wandering around in the Pyrenees
Roc Genèse, the first wild bearded vulture nestling ever tagged in the ...
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The 2016 Alpine summering griffon vulture census is already this weeked (20 August 2016 ) – last chance to participate!
This summer´s census of summering griffon vultures in the western Alps will ...
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Update on the efforts to establish captive breeding programme for the Southern Africa bearded vulture
Following a long term decline of southern Africa´s bearded vultures – the ...
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Three captive-bred Egyptian vultures were released in Northern Bulgaria
Last Wednesday a team from the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of ...
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