A GPS transmitter weighs only a few grams, and yet it provides invaluable information that helps inform more accurate conservation actions. Equipping vultures with GPS transmitters enables us to closely monitor their movements and behaviour, understand their foraging ranges and habits, and detect when individuals are no longer moving and potentially injured to act accordingly. The data also reveals any threats vultures face, providing insights that allow us to carry out actions to mitigate risks and help support the species comeback.
As part of different conservation projects, we monitor several Bearded Vultures across the Alps, France and Spain. You can also follow their lives by checking out these online maps that are open to the public!
Bearded Vultures GPS-tagged in the Alps
Ricky-Rico - Stelvio National Park - marked in 2022
Mojo -Mercantour National Park - chick fledged July 2022
Daille - PN Vanoise - chick fledged July 2022
Dome - PN Vanoise - chick fledged July 2022
Elfie - Haute-Savoie - chick fledged June 2022
Bellecote - PN Vanoise - chick fledged July 2020
Vidoc - Haute-Savoie - chick fledged July 2020
Prazon-sixt-fer-a-cheval - Haute-Savoie - chick fledged July 2020
SixtBuet - Haute-Savoie - chick fledged on July 2019
Emparis - chick fledged on July 2019
Altitude - Peisey Nancroix - chick fledged on 12 July 2019
Pierro - fledged 2019 in Haute-Savoie, rehabilitated 2020
Veronika - released 1998 Swiss National Park - recaptured and re-released 2017 Haute Savoye
Mison - 2017 wildborn in the Valais, Switzerland and released in Baronnies, France
Gypsy - wildborn in Haute-Savoie, France in 2017
Lea- released 2015 in the Nationalpark Hohe Tauern, Austria
Felix2 - released 2014 in the Nationalpark Hohe Tauern, Austria
Roman - Parco naturale Alpi Marittime - released 2015
Tenao - Parc National du Mercantour - released 2013