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Another chick born in the bearded vulture captive breeding network –and with it days of intensive work start!
Bearded vulture chicks have been hatching left, right and centre across the ...
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Italian experts and conservation managers discussed the pros and cons of feeding stations for scavenger bird species
Over 150 people from all over Italy participated in a conference on ...
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The miracle of LIFE in the bearded vulture captive breeding network
This is one of the busiest periods of the year for us ...
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Breeding season 2015 – and another chick hatched in Tierpark Goldau
More good news from Switzerland – a chick hatched from one of ...
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Hatching bearded vultures – busy times at the captive breeding network!
One hundred years after going extinct in the Alps, the bearded vulture ...
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Breaking news – the pair of bearded vultures that has built a nest in Cazorla (Andalucia) has now laid eggs!
Another important milestone in the fantastic project to restore thisspecies in Andalucía. ...
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On Kirma and commitment to a cause – how intensive care and a lot of expertise rehabilitated a severely injured bearded vulture back into breeding
The bearded vulture captive breeding season in now in full swing – ...
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End of an era – one of the most prolific bearded vultures in our captive breeding network died on the same day his last chick hatched.
Maybe it was just a coincidence, but one cannot escape thinking that ...
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Bearded Vulture monitoring report for the French Alps – Life GypHelp
In the framework of the Life Project “GypHelp”, the Vulture Conservation Foundation ...
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The VCF and prominent Spanish scientists alert to a new threat to Iberian vultures – the proposal to eliminate all by-products of hunted wild ungulates
The regional Agriculture Agency of Castilla-La Mancha (Consejería de Agricultura) has recently ...
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Vultures die of old age too – female bearded vulture left us at age 49!
The oldest female present in the bearded vulture captive breeding network (coordinated ...
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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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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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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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Bearded vulture makes Xmas appearance in Madrid
An immature bearded vulture has been seen on the 21st December near ...
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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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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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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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