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21 chicks and counting – good breeding season in the bearded vulture captive breeding network – and a surprising and rare third clutch
So far there are already 21 chicks in the VCF coordinated captive ...
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A wild bearded vulture found dead in the French Pyrenees – and a whole network of people mobilizes to find out what killed him!
On February 20th Pascal Borreill, a train driver, saw the body of ...
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Update on Roman & Herculis, the bearded vultures released last year in Alpi Marittime: Herculis lost its transmitter but is alive! Roman is now in Vanoise
The last few days were a bit stressfull for all the staff ...
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Do animals recognise their disabilities? Some evidence from bearded vulture Kirma
The VCF coordinates the bearded vulture captive breeding network, managed specifically for ...
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Bearded vultures in the Alps – Update on the breeding season 2015/2016: lots of new pairs established!
It is a very encouraging start into this year’s bearded vulture Alpine ...
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New bearded vulture pairs in the French Alps
With the breeding season in full swing, preliminary data about the bearded ...
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Bearded Vultures lay an egg in Bulgaria for the first time in 60 years – in captivity, but a good omen for the future
The Bulgarian NGO Green Balkans has just announced that the captive bearded ...
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One step closer to link bearded vulture populations in the Alps and Pyrenees – LIFE+ GYPCONNECT
Staff, technicians and managers from the partners of the LIFE+ project GYPCONECT ...
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A new breeding pair of bearded vultures in Savoie (French Alps)
This year a new breeding pair has established itself in the Savoie ...
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Bearded vulture captive breeding (for conservation): 47 eggs and counting – and the first chicks!
So far, a total of 30 pairs of bearded vultures in the ...
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The structure of bearded vulture shells and implications for conservation
The results of a very interesting research done by Mauro Hernández from ...
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More good news from Andalucia – second bearded vulture pair exhibiting breeding behavior
Last year was a momentous one for the bearded vulture reintroduction project ...
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Conclusions and presentations of the seminar on lead poisoning and bearded vultures published
As part of the LIFE GYPHELP project, in which the VCF is ...
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Great Audio-book for children on the bearded vulture (in French)
ASTERS – the Conservatoire d´Espaces Naturels de Haute-Savoie, which works alongside the ...
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Annual bearded vulture meeting, November 2015 – the conclusions are now out!
The main conclusions of the annual bearded vulture meeting 2015, held in ...
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How many bearded vultures are there in the Alps? First results from the 2015 International Observation day (simultaneous census)
The bearded vulture reintroduction project in the Alps is one of the ...
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New paper details dispersion and movements of bearded vultures Gypaetus barbatus from Corsica to Sardinia
The bearded vulture population in Corsica is one of only two island ...
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MONITORING OF A BEARDED VULTURE NEST WITH CAMERA IN ANDORRA 2011-2015
In July 1999, the Department of Environment of the Government of Andorra ...
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New year, another breeding season – 28 eggs so far in the bearded vulture captive breeding network!
Bearded vultures are one of the earliest breeders in Europe – their ...
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The highlights of the VCF year
2015 was a busy year at the VCF. Some highlights… -20 bearded ...
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