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Check out the latest news and stories about vultures and our conservation work
Training of Portuguese partners on tagging vultures with GPS tags
As part of the LIFE RUPIS project, the VCF and its partners ...
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The adventures of a cinereous vulture in Jordan
The cinereous vulture is a rare passage migrant and/or winter visitor in ...
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Have you ever seen a pig flying? And a griffon swimming?
The Medraptors blog recently brought us a wonderful story – see photos ...
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New paper – bearded vulture foraging behaviour in the Pyrenees unaffected by policy-driven carcass management measures
The potential availability of food for vultures and other scavenging birds in ...
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Even Meerkats detect the decline of African vultures! (paper)
Vulture populations are experiencing rapid declines in many parts of the globe, ...
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All Egyptian vulture’s roads lead to the Douro – or the case of Tizón!
Last weekend Domingos Leitão, the director of the Portuguese Society for the ...
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Help needed for translation of Der Falke magazine from German to English
VCF is still looking for volunteer translators (preferably native English speakers who ...
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Unlikely heroes behind the bearded vulture captive breeding programme – Andreas Eder and the animal transport van from Schönbrunn Zoo
There are now more than 40 bearded vulture pairs in the Alps, ...
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Black vulture shows up in the eastern Alps
Once widespread throughout southern Europe, the black vulture now has a disjunct ...
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The bearded vulture in Corsica in 2017: 4 pairs and no breeding in the wild, but the young released as part of the restocking programme doing well
This year the bearded vulture population in Corsica comprised 4 breeding pairs, ...
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Der Falke special edition on vultures now available to order
A special edition of the German bird magazine “Der Falke”, totally focussed ...
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Griffon vultures are breeding again in Cyprus and recolonised area not used for years
Following a string of bad news – some poisoning incidents and no ...
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Barcelona Zoo sent 3 captive-bred griffons for the vulture reintroduction project in Bulgaria
The Zoo of Barcelona donated three young male griffon vultures for the ...
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Adult bearded vulture rescued and re-released back to the wild in the French Alps
On the 5th of June, a female adult bearded vulture – named ...
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Guidelines for feeding bearded vultures in captivity are now also available in French
100 years after going extinct in the Alps, the bearded vulture is ...
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Observarribas is here!
The 1st edition of Observarribas, a festival of bird watching and outdoor ...
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New paper on guidelines for evaluation and treatment of lead poisoning of wild raptors
Lead poisoning is a threat to birds, particularly scavenging birds of prey, ...
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Looking for (bearded vulture) Kilian
Kilian is an immature bearded vulture released in Austria in 2014 (Hohe ...
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Two adult Egyptian vultures have been captured and tagged in the Douro – another great milestone in the LIFE RUPIS project
In the late afternoon of the 12th June, a team from the ...
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What have Jana and Tempestosa, the two griffons tagged in Sardinia, been up to?
The young female griffon vultures that have been released the 9th of ...
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