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Where are Herculis and Roman?

Remember Herculis and Roman? They are the two young bearded vultures released in ...
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After Fresnedosa and Jara last winter – four more overwintering Egyptian vultures captured and tagged yesterday in Extremadura (Spain)

The Egyptian vulture is a partially migratory species across its vast global ...
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Bearded vultures in the Alps 2015

After extinction in the beginning of the 20th century, bearded vultures started ...
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The 16 species of Old World Vultures in a sensible evolutionary order – drawing by Katja Wolfram

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Another massive poisoning of vultures in Africa – this time in Senegal, where there were no previous reports of widespread poisoning

The plight of African vultures has reached the international conservation agenda, with ...
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The bearded vulture breeding season is starting!

Winter is just starting, yet for bearded vultures (both in the wild ...
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Best practice in the work of the specialized anti-poison dog units in Spain – conference today

The first specialized anti-poison dog units in Europe were established a decade ...
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More Spanish black vultures will soon be on the way to France

The VCF is organizing one more time the transport of Black Vultures ...
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Interesting observations of black vultures in the Balkans

Once widespread throughout the Balkans, the black vulture (now breeds only in ...
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1st egg of the breeding season in the Bearded vulture captive breeding network

The first egg of the season in the bearded vulture captive breeding ...
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Africa vulture declines linked with elephant poaching for Ivory: new paper

A new paper published today in the conservation journal Oryx raises the ...
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Removal of eggs or chicks has considerable impact in the Pyrenean population of bearded vultures – new paper

A new paper published recently (see below) suggests that the removal of ...
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Four years later… justice at last! Suspect convicted of poisoning a bearded vulture in Andalucía

Poison is the number one threat to vultures worldwide, and it continues ...
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The Egyptian vulture Tizón is back to Mali

Last time (in July) we gave you news of Tizón – the ...
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Working together to update the international species action plan for the bearded vulture (LIFE EUROSAP)

More than 20 experts from 8 countries worked intensely this week in ...
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Black vulture Bernardus goes south in Spain

The captive-bred black vulture Bernardus (released last September in southern France) has ...
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Bearded vultures are flying to Corsica this weekend

The 2015 annual bearded vulture meeting – an annual conference of experts ...
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Captive-bred black vulture “Bernardus”  released in Verdon is now in Spain

The European captive breeding program (EEP) for the Eurasian black vulture registered ...
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LIFE+ GYPCONNECT starts – linking bearded vultures from the Alps to the Pyrenees

The new LIFE+ project GYPCONECT – funded by the EU LIFE Fund ...
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Griffon folklore – where did 2 young griffons born in captivity and released in the eastern Alps end up?

Vultures are extraordinary birds. They are big, they are useful, and… they ...
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