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Cheers for Adonis – Romanian beer company makes a special edition named after the long staying bearded vulture
Bearded vulture Adonis – a young male released in 2014 in the ...
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Poison surfaces again in key vulture area in Bulgaria
About ten days ago some hunters discovered carcasses of two sheep laced ...
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Rupis is wintering in Mali – very close to Tizón!
Rupis – the subadult Egyptian vulture which was captured and tagged in ...
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The Africa vulture crisis continues unabated – at least 51 vultures poisoned in Limpopo National Park (Mozambique)
Just a few days after South African colleagues rescued a number of ...
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Esperanza – the first bearded vulture wild born in Andalucía in 30+ years, has been to Gredos
Like most of the bearded vultures released in the Andalusia reintroduction project, ...
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A first for France – LIFE GYPHELP puts anti-collision markers on a high-voltage line with a drone
Last week ENEDIS (the French grid manager) and the LIFE GYPHELP team ...
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Captive-bred Egyptian vulture Elodie makes it to Africa after Regina and Lom tragically drown in the Med
After Regina, and then Lom – two of the three captive bred ...
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International observation day is this weekend – join us! Last year 700 volunteers counted ~190 bearded vultures, or 70% of the estimated Alpine population
The International Observation Days (IOD) for bearded vultures have started in 2006, ...
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Dark year for bearded vultures in Andalusia – two more birds found poisoned in the last weeks, total for this year 3
An adult male bearded vulture was found dead, poisoned, in late September ...
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Rupis crossed the Sahara – he is now in Mauritania!
Rupis – the subadult Egyptian vulture which was captured and tagged in ...
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Release of an injured Griffon in LIFE RUPIS project area
On the 21st September a griffon vulture was released back to the ...
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Black vulture collided with plane landing in Mallorca
Recently the VCF website discussed the issue of air strikes between aircraft ...
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TV report on LIFE GYPCONNECT
A recent TV short report on the LIFE GYPCONNECT highlights the aims ...
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LIFE GYPCONNECT – LIFE14 NAT/FR/000050 – partners meet in Quillan (Aude, France) to evaluate work done and plan next phases of the project
More than 20 staff from the different partners of the EU-funded LIFE ...
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And suddenly… Egyptian vulture Rupis quickly migrated to Africa
Rupis – the subadult Egyptian vulture which was captured and tagged in ...
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Tragic news from captive-bred Egyptian vultures Regina and Lom – both drowned while trying to cross the Mediterranean
When Regina, and then Lom – two of the three captive bred ...
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Get out – these mountains are mine! Says the bearded vulture to the griffon vulture
Images of a violent fight between an adult bearded vulture and an ...
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Results of the bearded vulture breeding season in the Alps 2016 – 43 breeding pairs, 25 chicks fledged, best year ever!
After extinction in the beginning of the 20th century, bearded vultures started ...
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Black vulture shows up in Serbia again
Once widespread throughout the Balkans, the black vulture now breeds only in ...
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Kira is no longer flying
Kira, a 6 year old bearded vulture female that had been released in ...
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