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Bearded vulture makes Xmas appearance in Madrid
An immature bearded vulture has been seen on the 21st December near ...
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Tizón is spending Xmas in Senegal!
Tizón – the Egyptian vulture tagged on the 24th September in the ...
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Father Xmas brought some great presents – fist eggs laid in the bearded vulture captive breeding network!
This year, the race for first egg laid in the bearded vulture ...
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Record year for black vultures in Mallorca – 25 pairs and 16 young fledged. Species has recovered from almost extinction in the early 80s
The results of the monitoring of the black vulture population in Mallorca, ...
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EMA says veterinary diclofenac does pose a risk to European vultures, and suggests a number of solutions, including a ban of the drug – what next?
(Photo Simon Littlejohn/VCF) The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published last weekend ...
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Have you ever seen a pig flying? Or a griffon with a bell?
Well, well, Clive Muir, a long-time Spanish resident and the mentor of ...
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Egyptian vulture tagged in Eastern Turkey overwinters in Kenya
In the summer of 2014, researchers from the University of Utah and ...
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Scientific community suggest that weak environmental assessments of veterinary drugs undermine regulations and can cause a vulture ecological disaster
A few days before the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is due to ...
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Burkina Faso? No thanks – let me go back to my preferred spot in Mali – or the incredible voyage of Tizón, the young Egyptian vulture
Tizón – the Egyptian vulture tagged on the 24th September in the ...
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On vultures, rotting food, and nasty germs – new research on the bacteria living on vultures
(c) Bruno Berthemy – European Griffon and Black Vulture feeding on a ...
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34 griffon vultures are on their way from Extremadura (Spain) to Bulgaria, to be released in the Stara Planina Mountains
The griffon vultures – mostly juveniles – are all birds that entered ...
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Vultures need you – please write to your MEPs about veterinary diclofenac
As the deadline for a final decision by the EU Commission on ...
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Tizón does a left turn – he is now on the border with Burkina Faso!
Tizón does a left turn – he is now on the border ...
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New paper makes recommendations regarding the management of vulture feeding stations to benefit endangered species
Providing food for vultures in vulture feeding stations (also called vultures restaurants) ...
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Vultures (and other things!) galore at Turkey feeding station
Turkey´s only regularly functioning vulture feeding station continues to surprise us: over ...
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One step closer to ban vet diclofenac in the EU – CMS makes landmark political decision on the matter and recommends its prohibition
The last few weeks saw vulture conservation score a few points against ...
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Tizón moves further south – he is now close to Bamako
Tizón- the young Egyptian vulture tagged on the 24th September in the ...
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Breaking news – Pair of bearded vultures build nest in Cazorla, 30 years after the last nesting in the wild
Staff from the Junta de Andalucia have confirmed that a pair of ...
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Record year in the bearded vulture alpine reintroduction project: 31 territories and 19 young fledged in the wild, the highest ever
Annual meeting of theproject partners celebrated this remarkable comeback and planned the ...
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Tizón has been enjoying Mali
After crossing the Sahara desert over Mauritania, Tizón seems to be enjoying ...
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