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Check out the latest news and stories about vultures and our conservation work
Come and meet the VCF at this weekend´s FIO (International Birdwatching Fair) (Monfrague, Spain)
The 10th FIO will be held in Monfragüe National Park (Extremadura, Spain), ...
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VCF and Junta de Extremadura start a new project to monitor a unique wintering population of Egyptian Vulture in Iberia
Two birdshave been caught and tagged Extremadura has about 175 breeding pairs ...
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The miracle of LIFE in the bearded vulture captive breeding network
This is one of the busiest periods of the year for us ...
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Breeding season 2015 – and another chick hatched in Tierpark Goldau
More good news from Switzerland – a chick hatched from one of ...
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GYPAS project: 12 more griffon vultures released last week to restock the endangered population in Cyprus
On the 5th & 6 of February 12 griffon vultures have been ...
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Hatching bearded vultures – busy times at the captive breeding network!
One hundred years after going extinct in the Alps, the bearded vulture ...
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Breaking news – the pair of bearded vultures that has built a nest in Cazorla (Andalucia) has now laid eggs!
Another important milestone in the fantastic project to restore thisspecies in Andalucía. ...
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On Kirma and commitment to a cause – how intensive care and a lot of expertise rehabilitated a severely injured bearded vulture back into breeding
The bearded vulture captive breeding season in now in full swing – ...
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End of an era – one of the most prolific bearded vultures in our captive breeding network died on the same day his last chick hatched.
Maybe it was just a coincidence, but one cannot escape thinking that ...
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Bearded Vulture monitoring report for the French Alps – Life GypHelp
In the framework of the Life Project “GypHelp”, the Vulture Conservation Foundation ...
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The VCF and prominent Spanish scientists alert to a new threat to Iberian vultures – the proposal to eliminate all by-products of hunted wild ungulates
The regional Agriculture Agency of Castilla-La Mancha (Consejería de Agricultura) has recently ...
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Vultures die of old age too – female bearded vulture left us at age 49!
The oldest female present in the bearded vulture captive breeding network (coordinated ...
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Tizón and Mali – a love affair
Tizón – the young Egyptian vulture tagged in Spain – really seems ...
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The Junta de Andalusia gives 13 Eurasian Black Vultures for the reintroduction projects and the captivity-breeding programme (EEP)
The regional government of Andalusia handed over this week 13 Eurasian black ...
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The silent killer strikes again – at least 5 cinereous vultures (Aegypius monachus) and 3 griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus) poisoned in eastern Turkey
On the 16th January Yusuf Yilmaz from Igdir province, in Eastern Turkey, ...
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New study on the diet of the Egyptian vulture in the Balkans suggests that breeding productivity is not related to food
The Egyptian vulture is the most threatened vulture species in Europe – ...
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The mystery of the orange colour in bearded vultures. What benefits do birds get from bathing in iron oxid-rich mud?
Adult bearded vultures often have a deep orange-red tinge on their plumage, ...
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Tizón is back to western Mali
Tizón – the Egyptian vulture tagged on the 24th September last year ...
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New papers on bearded vulture home ranges in the Pyrenees and Southern Africa
Two papers have been published recently with results from the monitoring of ...
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Good news from Algeria – bearded vultures seem to hang on in the country!
The last bulletin from the Theniet El Had National Park (Atlantica, see ...
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