Category: News
Release of an injured Griffon in LIFE RUPIS project area
Setembro 30, 2016
On the 21st September a griffon vulture was released back to the ...
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Black vulture collided with plane landing in Mallorca
Setembro 27, 2016
Recently the VCF website discussed the issue of air strikes between aircraft ...
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TV report on LIFE GYPCONNECT
Setembro 25, 2016
A recent TV short report on the LIFE GYPCONNECT highlights the aims ...
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LIFE GYPCONNECT – LIFE14 NAT/FR/000050 – partners meet in Quillan (Aude, France) to evaluate work done and plan next phases of the project
Setembro 25, 2016
More than 20 staff from the different partners of the EU-funded LIFE ...
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And suddenly… Egyptian vulture Rupis quickly migrated to Africa
Setembro 24, 2016
Rupis – the subadult Egyptian vulture which was captured and tagged in ...
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Tragic news from captive-bred Egyptian vultures Regina and Lom – both drowned while trying to cross the Mediterranean
Setembro 22, 2016
When Regina, and then Lom – two of the three captive bred ...
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Get out – these mountains are mine! Says the bearded vulture to the griffon vulture
Setembro 21, 2016
Images of a violent fight between an adult bearded vulture and an ...
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Results of the bearded vulture breeding season in the Alps 2016 – 43 breeding pairs, 25 chicks fledged, best year ever!
Setembro 20, 2016
After extinction in the beginning of the 20th century, bearded vultures started ...
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Black vulture shows up in Serbia again
Setembro 19, 2016
Once widespread throughout the Balkans, the black vulture now breeds only in ...
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Kira is no longer flying
Setembro 13, 2016
Kira, a 6 year old bearded vulture female that had been released in ...
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Second captive-bred Egyptian vulture released in Bulgaria is also migrating – Lom follows Regina, while the latter flies south to Cyprus!
Setembro 9, 2016
Lom – the male captive-bred Egyptian vulture released in a hacking platform ...
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International vulture awareness day – griffons will be released this Saturday in Badajoz
Setembro 8, 2016
As part of the International Vulture Awareness Day, the NGO AMUS – ...
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Regina – the captive-bred Egyptian vulture released in Bulgaria – is now in Turkey on its way south
Setembro 7, 2016
Following their successful first flights from the hacking cavity, the three captive-bred ...
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192 black vultures fledged from nests in Andalucía (Spain) – the second best result ever since 1970!
Setembro 5, 2016
The results of the Andalucía action plan for the conservation of the ...
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The International Vulture Awareness Day is today. Let´s all celebrate vultures!
Setembro 3, 2016
This weekend will see another International Vulture Awareness Day (see http://www.vultureday.org/2016/) – ...
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Three captive-bred Egyptian vultures fledged successfully from their hacking cavity in Bulgaria
Setembro 2, 2016
Just a few days after the first flight of the juvenile of ...
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Who will bring the Spring if the Egyptian vultures is extinct? See video
Agosto 30, 2016
In Albania local legends says that cuckoo ride on the back of ...
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New paper on a new Gypaetinae vulture fossil species from China
Agosto 28, 2016
We know from fossil records that what we call today old World ...
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Breaking news – vulture seen in London!
Agosto 27, 2016
A vulture has been spotted today in central London – in the ...
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Collisions of griffons with commercial aircraft at Madrid airport
Agosto 26, 2016
A letter recently published in Nature by Antoni Margalida (see below) discusses ...
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