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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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The Corsican bearded vulture chick extracted from an unproductive nest earlier this year is a female and is doing well!
Last February a team from the Parc Naturel Regional de Corse and ...
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Egyptian vulture ringed in France observed in Sicily
The Italian population of the globally endangered Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus) is ...
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Griffon tagged and released in Sardinia under the Life Under the project Griffon Wings project
A rehabilitated griffon vulture was tagged and released this weekend in Sardinia, ...
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Bearded vultures in the Alps are also breeding!
Following close on the steps of their cousins in the VCF-managed bearded ...
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News from Rupis: still in Mali
Rupis – the subadult Egyptian vulture which was captured and tagged in ...
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