{"id":14512,"date":"2020-09-25T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4vultures.org\/?p=14512"},"modified":"2025-05-05T15:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T12:47:09","slug":"the-latest-movements-of-58-wild-bearded-vultures-across-seven-important-european-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/es\/blog\/the-latest-movements-of-58-wild-bearded-vultures-across-seven-important-european-regions\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest movements of 58 wild Bearded Vultures across seven important European regions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bearded Vulture in flight (c) Bruno Berthemy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

La International Bearded Vulture Monitoring Network (IBM)<\/a> monitors the Bearded Vultures across seven different regions in Austria, France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Besides the common observations and the monitoring of the breeding pairs, the monitoring with GPS tags is important. Both released and wild-hatched birds are equipped with GPS tags. Their age range varies, with the youngest at their first calendar year and the oldest on her 22nd calendar year! Overall, the IBM network monitors 58-tagged birds, which entails analyzing their movements to help inform conservation actions and monitoring them daily to ensure their wellbeing. The freshly fledged birds, both released and wild hatched are only starting to make longer trips, and we expect them to move greater distances next spring. However, there are exceptions. In this blog post, we review the August 2020 movements of the birds monitored with the IBM Network by the local partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monitoring Bearded Vultures in the Alps<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bearded Vulture was driven to extinction in the Alps during the 20th Century, and to bring them back, pioneers from all Alpine countries initiated the reintroduction project in the 1970s<\/a>. The first birds were released in 1986 at Hohe Tauern National Park (Austria), and in 1997 the first breeding pair successfully raised a chick in the wild in France. Today, there are around 300 Bearded Vultures, including 55+ breeding pairs, across the Alps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The partners in the IBM network monitor the movements in the Central, Eastern, South-Western and North-Western Alps across Austria, France, Italy and Switzerland. The maps show the different birds, based on their geographic origin.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n