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Check out the latest news and stories about vultures and our conservation work
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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The number of griffon vultures breeding and roosting in Eastern Rhodopes continues to increase
The breeding colony of griffon vultures in the Eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria) continues ...
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Girun and Volcaire doing well – and have been celebrated by a Côtes du Rhône wine!
You can now drink some good wine (see review below), with a ...
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News from LIFE GYPCONNECT: Bearded vulture Roc Genèse is a male, is now in Spain, and its parents are breeding again
Roc Genèse, the first wild bearded vulture nestling ever tagged in the ...
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News from the LIFE Re vultures – griffon and black vultures from the Rodopes-Dadia area (Bulgaria/Greece) tracked
A total of 7 griffon vultures – four adults and three young ...
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Tracking bearded vultures in Nepal – new research project by Tulsi Subedi
Bearded vultures occur from Western Europe to China, and from North Africa ...
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Bearded vultures in our captive breeding network kept laying eggs during Xmas and new Year!
While most of us took some time off to celebrate Christmas or ...
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Happy New Year from the VCF – thank you for your support during 2016
Soon the team here at VCF will switch off their computers and ...
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A good end to a sad story – Adult bearded vulture found injured and lead-poisoned in the French Pyrenees successfully rehabilitated and released
On the 29th of September staff from the French Pyrenean municipally of ...
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Adonis – the bearded vulture last recorded in Romania, where a beer was named after it, is now back in the French Pre-Alps!
Bearded vulture Adonis – a young male released in 2014 in the ...
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