{"id":42128,"date":"2026-06-10T14:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/?p=42128"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:02:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:02:56","slug":"movements-of-tagged-african-white-backed-vulture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/es\/blog\/movements-of-tagged-african-white-backed-vulture\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch out &#8211; an African white-backed vulture is flying around in Iberia."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This rare vagrant from Africa has flown thousands of kilometres in Europe without being detected<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"451\" src=\"http:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-07-at-00.38.32-2-1024x451.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-07-at-00.38.32-2-1024x451.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-07-at-00.38.32-2-300x132.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-07-at-00.38.32-2-768x338.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-07-at-00.38.32-2-1536x676.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-07-at-00.38.32-2-18x8.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-07-at-00.38.32-2.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">White-backed vulture in its fourth year, tagged by VRC JBel Moussa with a VCF tag.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 2, Rachid El Khamlichi, from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crv-jbelmoussa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jbel Moussa<\/a>\u00a0Raptor Rehabilitation Centre, captured and tagged (with a GPS transmitter provided by the VCF) a rare African White-backed Vulture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The White-backed Vulture, a Shub-Saharan species, is the most common and widespread vulture species in Africa, occurring across the East, West, and South of the continent.\u00a0Despite being a very rare visitor in Northern Africa, a few individuals have been seen in the Iberian Peninsula in the last decade, indicating that they probably crossed the Gibraltar straits following the flocks of <a href=\"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/es\/vultures\/griffon-vulture\/\">Griffon Vultures (<em>Gyps fulvus)<\/em><\/a> migrating northwards. Back in 2023, another African White-backed Vulture toured a part of the Iberian Peninsula (see <a href=\"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/es\/blog\/gps-tagged-african-white-backed-vulture-vastly-explores-the-iberian-peninsula\/\">GPS-tagged African White-backed Vulture vastly explores the Iberian Peninsula &#8211; Vulture Conservation Foundation<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A species facing a dangerously fast decline<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.int\/raptors\/en\/workinggroup\/multi-species-action-plan-conserve-african-eurasian-vultures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vulture Multi-species Action Plan (Vulture MsAP)<\/a>, co-developed by the Vulture Conservation Foundation and endorsed by the Convention for Migratory Species, there are 270,000 African White-backed Vulture (<em>Gyps africanus<\/em>) individuals, and the species is facing a rapid decline. It went from Least Concern in 2005 to Critically Endangered in only ten years,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org\/species\/22695189\/204461164#geographic-range\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">as stated by the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The successive and frequent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/es\/?s=poison+africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poisoning incidents in Africa<\/a>\u00a0are the key drivers behind the rapid decline of several vulture species. In addition, illegal trapping and killing for traditional belief practices, national and international illegal trade, and changes in their habitat, with a possible reduction of food availability, hinder the species\u2019 survival. Other anthropic causes, such as power infrastructure and disturbance of nesting places, also pose problems for African vulture species like the White-backed Vulture.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bird in question is the second white-backed vulture tagged this year in Morocco. The first one unfortunately died while trying to cross the Straits towards Europe (see\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/es\/blog\/white-backed-vulture-tagged-in-morocco-died-in-the-strait-of-gibraltar\/\">One White-backed vulture lost to the dangerous crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar &#8211; Vulture Conservation Foundation<\/a>). This second bird is a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> calendar year, a rare age in that part of the world \u00a0&#8211; the few vagrants so far recorded in northern Morocco have been mostly first or 2<sup>nd<\/sup> year birds. It is only the second 3<sup>rd<\/sup> calendar year African White-backed Vulture ever seen in Jbel Moussa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crossing the dangerous Strait of Gibraltar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>From capture and release on <strong>May 2 to May 7<\/strong>, the bird was in northern Morocco, at one point moving as far south as Larache, some 100 km soutwest from the capture point, but it soon returned to Jbel Mousa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On <strong>May 7<\/strong>, it crossed the Gibraltar Strait, flying at an altitude of approximately 300m and at 70km\/h, touching Europe on the west end of the bay of Gibraltar, near Algeciras, in the well-known Punta Carnero. It then turned west and spent its first night in Europe just east of Cadiz. The next day it flew over Do\u00f1ana and headed north. \u00a0Between <strong>May 8 and May 11<\/strong>, it flew over the Picos de Aroche, in western Andalusia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Touring the Iberian Peninsula<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On <strong>May 12<\/strong>, it crossed into Portugal and spent the day and night at Herdade da Contenda, a border area that harbours a <a href=\"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/es\/vultures\/cinereous-vulture\/\">Cinereous Vulture <em>(Aegypius monachus<\/em>)<\/a> colony. It then moved west, and on <strong>May 13<\/strong>, it slept in Serra de Portel, where there is another Cinereous Vulture colony, before proceeding to cross Portugal from south to north. On May 13, it went as far south as Aljustrel and Castro Verde, then flew north, spent the night near Alc\u00e1cer do Sal, then up the Tejo valley until F\u00e1tima, where it veered east, and slept north of Castelo Branco. It then continued its trip north through eastern Portugal, all the way to the Tua valley, then turning east to the well-known vulture hotspot of the Douro canyon, where it slept on <strong>May 15<\/strong>, near Freixo de Espada \u00e0 Cointa. On <strong>May 16<\/strong> it went northwest again and entered Galicia, east of Ver\u00edn, and then further east into Castilla y Le\u00f3n. Visited the Biosphere Reserve of the Ancares Leoneses, turned east, and slept SE of L\u00e9on, in the Iberian plateau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On <strong>May 17,<\/strong> it went south again and slept East of Bragan\u00e7a (Portugal), and stayed in the upper Douro canyon until <strong>May 20<\/strong>, when it returned north and reached the area north of Puebla de Sanabria, where it stayed for a couple of days. On <strong>May 23,<\/strong> it flew northeast into the mountains of Picos de Europa and stayed some time in Parque Natural de Las Ubi\u00f1as\/Angliru mountain. It then moved further west into northern Galicia, in an area just north of As Pontes de Garc\u00eda Rodriguez, in the province of A Coru\u00f1a. On <strong>May 28,<\/strong> it did a detour to the Atlantic Ocean, reaching the sea at the Costa \u00c1rtabra, just west of Cari\u00f1o. Instead of taking the sea, it turned towards the inland. On <strong>May 29,<\/strong> it returned SW, passing west of Lugo, then Ourense, and stayed in the Manzaneda area until <strong>June 2<\/strong>. It finally headed west, entered Portugal again through the Peneda Ger\u00eas National Park, then returned SE and spent the night just north of Sanfins do Douro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"713\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WBV-complete-3-June-713x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"GPS map of the movements of the African White-backed vulture tagged in Morocco in 2026 and flying over Spain and Portugal\" class=\"wp-image-42127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WBV-complete-3-June-713x1024.jpeg 713w, https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WBV-complete-3-June-209x300.jpeg 209w, https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WBV-complete-3-June-768x1103.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WBV-complete-3-June-1069x1536.jpeg 1069w, https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WBV-complete-3-June-8x12.jpeg 8w, https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WBV-complete-3-June.jpeg 1114w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Map of the movements of the 3rd year African White-Backed vulture tagged in Morocco in May. The map follows its movements from the tagging day to June 3 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Collecting crucial data for conservation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout this trip, in which the vulture has flown more than <strong>3000km across western Iberia<\/strong>, it has not been knowingly seen by any birdwatcher. Picking up a slightly smaller African white-backed vulture in the middle of many griffons is not an easy task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monitoring the vagrancy patterns of this species is important in order to understand the wider conservation issues for the declining populations of the species in Africa. These movements have also been seen with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/es\/blog\/europes-5th-vulture-species\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">R\u00fcppell\u2019s Vulture<\/a>&nbsp;(<em>Gyps rueppelli<\/em>), whose increasing presence in Southern Spain seems to indicate a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/es\/blog\/juanita-the-only-known-adult-ruppells-vulture-that-calls-europe-her-permanent-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">possible new breeding population<\/a>&nbsp;that can lead to hybridisation and reverse gene flow back to the sub-Saharan African vulture population.&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This rare vagrant from Africa has flown thousands of kilometres in Europe without being detected On May 2, Rachid El Khamlichi, from the\u00a0Jbel Moussa\u00a0Raptor Rehabilitation Centre, captured and tagged (with a GPS transmitter provided by the VCF) a rare African White-backed Vulture. The White-backed Vulture, a Shub-Saharan species, is the most common and widespread vulture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[428,59,210,427],"class_list":["post-42128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2026-06","tag-monitoring","tag-monitoringmovements","tag-white-backed-vulture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Watch out - an African white-backed vulture is flying around in Iberia. - Vulture Conservation Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A rare 3rd-year African White-backed vulture tagged in Morocco in May is now touring Iberia. 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