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Restoring bearded vultures across Europe – two more birds released in the Swiss Alps

Following the releases of bearded vultures in Corsica, Andalusia, and the Grands ...
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Two more young bearded vultures released in Lozère

Last week two new young bearded vultures were released in Meyrueis by ...
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Tizón is back in Europe!

After spending almost two years in Africa, Tizón – the young Egyptian ...
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Good & bad news from Andalusia: while two more bearded vultures will be released today in Castril, one bird was found dead– poisoned,  elsewhere in the province

After several years without any mortality due to poisoning, the silent killer ...
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Vagrancy season: two young bearded vultures flying around northern Europe (UK and Denmark)

While the first ever bearded vulture to be seen in the UK ...
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LIFE RUPIS website now online

You can now explore the LIFE Rupis project at the new project ...
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Two young bearded vultures will be released tomorrow in the Grands Causses

Following the release of the first young bearded vultures in Corsica (see ...
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Demonstrating the fitting of tags to bearded vultures using Marie-Antoinette

Short film about Marie-Antoinette, a bearded vulture in the specialized captive breeding ...
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Cimatella and Muntagnolu equipped with satellite tags

Cimatella (female) and Muntagnolu (male), the two young bearded vultures released in ...
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Young bearded vulture seen in the UK!

A young bearded vulture was seen on the 12th May in the ...
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New paper suggests that nest guarding and supplementary feeding failed to increase productivity and survival of Egyptian Vultures in the Balkans

The Egyptian vulture is Europe’s most threatened vulture species – classified as ...
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Young bearded vulture seen in Belgium

This week we received news that a young bearded vulture was seen ...
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First bearded vultures hatched in captivity in Bulgaria feature in National Geographic!

The first two young bearded vultures ever hatched in captivity in Bulgaria ...
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Three bearded vultures successfully released in Andalucía

3 bearded vultures were released last Friday in the Parque Natural de ...
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Captive breeding of Egyptian vultures – results from 2015

Captive breeding can be a very effective conservation tool – the captive ...
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First three bearded vultures to be released in Andalucía this year put on the hacking platform today

The first three young bearded vultures to be released in Andalucia this ...
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Cimatella and Muntagnolu – two young bearded vultures – released yesterday in Corsica

Several dozen people witnessed yesterday a milestone in the efforts to save ...
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Message from His Serene Highness the Prince Albert II of Monaco to celebrate the release of two young bearded vultures in Corsica today

Engaged for a long time in the conservation of bearded vultures, the ...
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Two bearded vultures to be released tomorrow in Corse – for the first time ever

Two young bearded vultures raised in captivity within the bearded vulture captive-breeding ...
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Reintroducing bearded vultures to the wild – release season is starting soon!

This year the VCF and its partners will release 17 young bearded ...
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