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One step closer to the Vulture multi-Species Action Plan
The International Vulture multi-Species Action Plan, that the VCF, BirdLife International, and ...
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After Andalusia, bearded vultures are also breeding in Picos de Europa
Vultures may not be doing very well in other parts of the ...
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Two more griffons electrocuted in Andalusia
The range of threats affecting vultures is relatively well known, and indeed ...
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And they are out – first two baby bearded vultures of the season hatched in Guadalentin
The first bearded vulture to hatch this year within our captive breeding ...
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New data reveals there are 11-12 pairs of bearded vultures in Armenia
The species account for bearded vultures in Armenia within the National Atlas ...
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Good outcomes at the Middle-East regional workshop for the Vulture multi-Species Action Plan
About 35 vulture and biodiversity experts from the Arabian Peninsula spent the ...
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10,000 people for vultures!
When we speak about vultures to our audiences, we almost always detect ...
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Public consultation on the Draft Flyway Action Plan for the Conservation of the Balkan and Central Asian Populations of the Egyptian Vulture (EVFAP)
The Egyptian Vulture – one of the most threatened birds of prey ...
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New poisoning case in the LIFE RUPIS area – fortunately no vultures dead, but a serious reminder that the silent killer is a real threat
Early this month a member of the public alerted the police in ...
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Bringing Egyptian vultures and LIFE RUPIS to the local school children
Teams from SPEA, Palombar and ATN are bringing the LIFE RUPIS to ...
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Tono and Blimunda lay an egg again in Andalusia – after the first ever successful breeding in the wild in 2015 following reintroduction, and after a gap in 2016
Tono and Blimunda were undoubtedly the starts of the 2015 bearded vulture ...
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New paper on ranging of Pyrenean bearded vultures: supplementary feeding not that important (at least for breeding adults), and half of home ranges outside PAs
A new paper (Margalida et al. in 2016, Scientific Reports) showed that ...
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Bearded vulture captive breeding: Old ladies come to the rescue
Captive-breeding is a (difficult) art, but in the bearded vulture captive breeding ...
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News from LIFE RUPIS: Supplementary feeding points ready to receive the Egyptian vultures coming from Africa. And they are helping the local black vultures too!
The Egyptian vultures breeding in the Douro canyon are still in Africa, ...
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Female Egyptian vultures have lower survival and start breeding earlier than males in Central-North Spain
Ana Sanz-Aguilar and co-authors have research the effect of age and sex ...
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Egyptian vulture in France in 2016 – a summary: smaller population but average breeding productivity and a good number of young ringed
The 2016 annual report on the status of the French population of ...
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An analysis of poisoning cases in the Portuguese side of the Douro canyon
As part of the LIFE RUPIS project, the Portuguese nature conservation agency ...
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News from the bearded vulture pairs in Andalusia: Hortelano & Marchena are in fine breeding plumage and going through all the breeding antics (see video)
The breeding season 2014-15 was a milestone in the bearded vulture reintroduction ...
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Better and better at our bearded vulture captive breeding network – mortality rate decreases significantly while the average age at death increases!
The bearded vulture breeding season is in full swing – both in ...
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135 pairs of Endangered Egyptian vultures in the Douro canyon
The results of the exhaustive breeding census of Egyptian vultures in the ...
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