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Yet another Portuguese Cinereous Vulture returned to the wild after rescue and rehabilitation

On Thursday 6 February, another Cinereous Vulture returned back to its natural ...
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More fallow deer released in the Eastern Rhodopes to help improve the natural food availability for vultures

As of early February, another 14 fallow deer have settled in the ...
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Results from the first Griffon Vulture census of the decade in Cyprus

Every year, BirdLife Cyprus coordinates two large-scale Griffon Vulture surveys, one in ...
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The fascinating travels of the young Griffon Vulture T89

This mid-January, HOS/BirdLife Greece observed two immature Griffon vultures flying for several days on ...
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Sign the petition to help protect Egyptian Vultures in Aragon (Spain)

The construction and imminent commissioning of a wind farm in the Cinco ...
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Watch directly from the nest the Bearded Vulture pair from Valsavarenche during this breeding period

For the second season in a row, a special webcam installed by ...
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The Griffon Vultures at the Green Balkans’ Wildlife Rehabilitation and Breeding Centre were given the chance to lay a second egg

The Griffon Vultures at the Green Balkans’ Wildlife Rehabilitation and Breeding Centre were given ...
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Meet Kobe – the first captive-bred Bearded Vulture chick of the season!

Captive breeding of Bearded Vultures is essential for the reintroduction or reinforcement ...
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Griffon Vultures colonised Mallorca and joined the resident Cinereous Vultures – a novel project now studies the consequences of this phenomenon

In 2008, the Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus) arrived in the Balearic Islands in an ...
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Highlights from the Anti-Poisoning and Wildlife Crime in Albania workshop

A national workshop in Albania took place on 24 January 2020 to ...
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Live nest cameras: a peek inside the lives of three Griffon Vulture breeding pairs in Israel

With the help of special nest cameras, all vulture lovers can watch ...
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An unlikely pairing: Rüppell’s Vulture breeding with Griffon Vulture in Spain

New evidence suggests two cases of a Rüppell’s Vulture breeding with a ...
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Attracting Cinereous Vulture pairs in Kotel Mountain

The Vultures Back To LIFE project aims to establish a nesting population of the ...
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Restoring Bearded Vulture populations in nature requires help from zoos

For the past few decades, we have been part of the coordinated ...
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Results from the three methods used to release captive-bred Egyptian Vultures in the Eastern Rhodopes in 2019

The Egyptian Vulture New LIFE project tested three methods for the release of captive-bred ...
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The breeding season for the Cinereous Vulture pair in the Green Balkans’ rescue centre has begun

The breeding season for the Cinereous Vulture pair in the Green Balkans’ Wildlife ...
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Missing Cinereous Vulture Bessie found dead after collision against power lines

Discovering Bessie’s carcass On 24 November, a hunter discovered the body of ...
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Research review: Technical-scientific order for the analysis of the diet of Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) in the Douro Canyon

A study led by Associação Transumância e Natureza (ATN) and carried out within the ...
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More Egyptian Vultures tagged with GPS transmitters in Ethiopia and new insights into the threats they face revealed

A joint team of EWNHS, BirdLife Africa, external experts, RSPB and BSPB headed towards Afar in Ethiopia once ...
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Brilliant photograph of an encounter between Bearded Vulture Carmen and Griffon Vulture in Barronies

Bearded Vulture Carmen, one of the nine Bearded Vultures released within the LIFE GypConnect project in ...
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