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Girun and Volcaire flying high!

Girun and Volcaire – the two young captive-bred bearded vultures released in ...
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First newsletter of the LIFE+ GYPCONNECT published – linking bearded vultures from the Alps to the Pyrenees

Ten months after the LIFE+ project GYPCONECT started, you can now read ...
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Luc Hoffmann – a celebration

It is with sadness that we mark the death of Dr Luc ...
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The last bearded vulture released last weekend in Andalusia

With the release of the last single chick in Andalusia on July ...
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Black vulture in Mallorca – new record this breeding season with 25 eggs hatched – but some controversy over access to exclusion areas too

A benign and favourable spring, and years of conservation efforts, resulted in ...
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Bearded vultures released in the Baronnies – a new reintroduction site – finally fledged

Girun and Volcaire  – two young bearded vultures bred in captivity within ...
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Larzac disappeared in Germany! Where is he?

The young male bearded vulture – named Larzac – that left the ...
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The bearded vulture in the French Alps in 2016

A total of 12 pairs were present this year in the French ...
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Et voila Cardabelle appears again!

Cardabelle is a female bearded vulture released in 2012 in the Grands ...
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The bearded vulture in the French Pyrenees in 2016

An annual update on the results of all the monitoring and research ...
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Bearded vulture captive breeding for conservation – 2015 report published

Now that the breeding season in the bearded vulture captive breeding network ...
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Bearded vulture captive breeding season is over – so birds are now being transferred across Europe

During the last days 6 bearded vultures have been transferred to different ...
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Young bearded vulture released in the Grands Causses dies due to viper bite

One of the two young females released earlier this year in the ...
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Larzac is still up north – now in northern Germany!

The young male bearded vulture – named Larzac – that left the ...
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Vultures galore in the Douro

As part of the LIFE RUPIS project, staff from ICNF (the Portuguese ...
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Griffons in northern Denmark – including a Spanish one!

In the last few years Griffon vultures have been turning up in ...
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Another bearded vulture wandering in northern Europe – Adonis is now in Belarus!

Adonis is a young male that was released in 2014 in the ...
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Where is Larzac?

The young male bearded vulture – named Larzac – that was found ...
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All together for the Egyptian vulture in the Douro valley

Following two days of technical meetings on the implementation of the LIFE ...
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Two young bearded vultures to be released tomorrow in the Hohe Tauern National Park (Austria)

 So far this year 14 bearded vultures have been released across Europe ...
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