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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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Taking care of precious eggs – the next generation of wild bearded vultures

Almost all of the pairs in the bearded vulture captive breeding network ...
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Annual simultaneous survey of griffon vultures in Cyprus: 15 birds counted

On the 15th December 2014 fifteen volunteers and staff from BirdLife Cyprus ...
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VCF´s new advisory service to the bearded vulture captive breeding network produces first results – several aviaries have been significantly improved!

In the last 18 months 14 zoos, animal parks and recovery centres ...
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Happy New Year Tizón!

Tizón – the Egyptian vulture tagged on the 24th September in Extremadura, ...
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Bearded vulture makes Xmas appearance in Madrid

An immature bearded vulture has been seen on the 21st December near ...
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Tizón is spending Xmas in Senegal!

Tizón – the Egyptian vulture tagged on the 24th September in the ...
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Father Xmas brought some great presents – fist eggs laid in the bearded vulture captive breeding network!

This year, the race for first egg laid in the bearded vulture ...
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Record year for black vultures in Mallorca – 25 pairs and 16 young fledged. Species has recovered from almost extinction in the early 80s

The results of the monitoring of the black vulture population in Mallorca, ...
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EMA says veterinary diclofenac does pose a risk to European vultures, and suggests a number of solutions, including a ban of the drug – what next?

(Photo Simon Littlejohn/VCF) The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published last weekend ...
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Have you ever seen a pig flying? Or a griffon with a bell?

Well, well, Clive Muir, a long-time Spanish resident and the mentor of ...
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Egyptian vulture tagged in Eastern Turkey overwinters in Kenya

In the summer of 2014, researchers from the University of Utah and ...
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Scientific community suggest that weak environmental assessments of veterinary drugs undermine regulations and can cause a vulture ecological disaster

A few days before the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is due to ...
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