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When age does not matter – 48 years old bearded vulture is still breeding
Vultures are long lived birds, and in captivity some birds may reach ...
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Cinereous vulture flyway action plan featured in this month´s Quercus magazine
This month´s edition of the Spanish nature conservation magazine Quercus features an ...
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An update on the bearded vulture captive-breeding season – lots of eggs, chicks hatching now
Bearded vultures start breeding in Europe earlier than any other bird species, ...
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Good news from the Alps – early start of the breeding season and already two new pairs of bearded vultures!
While the captive bearded vultures are keeping us really busy, their wild ...
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Italy – bearded vulture symposium and field count in Stelvio to be organised in March
20 years after the first bearded vulture pair bred successfully in the ...
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More Andean condors poisoned in Colombia, while Carbofuran confirmed in Argentina
At the same time that the results of the toxicological analysis from ...
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First for Jordan – cinereous vulture tagged and released back to the wild – He is now wintering in Saudi
Cinereous vultures are scarce winter visitors or passage migrants in the middle ...
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Whooshh! An adult bearded vulture alights near a webcam in the Gran Paradiso National Park
Bearded vultures are now incubating their eggs across the Alps, including in ...
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New vulture book for children (in German) – Geier Georg auf der Flucht
A new book for children on vultures, written by Rainer Nahrendorf, was ...
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Bearded vultures – and one of the most remarkable wildlife comeback stories of our times – features in Geographical
Photographer Luke Massey and feature writer Katie Stacey have been shadowing some ...
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We have a baby! The first bearded vulture of the season hatched in Haringsee (Austria)
Two days ago the first baby bearded vulture of the year hatched ...
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Wild Pyrenean bearded vulture released back to the wild after successful rehabilitation in Vallcalent
On the 12th January an adult bearded vulture was released back to ...
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The “silent killer” decimates Andean condors in Argentina – at least 34 poisoned in the mountains of Mendoza
The Vulture Multi-species Action Plan (Vulture MsAP), approved recently in the conference ...
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VOLUNTEER Technical document translation (German – English)
Author: Krunal Shah (This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share ...
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Bearded vultures in the French Pyrenees safer from disturbance from helicopter overflights
The Parc National des Pyrenees, conservation NGOs and the French electricity company ...
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39 eggs and counting in the bearded vulture captive breeding network – like this one in La Garenne Zoo
Almost every day now Alex Llopis, the manager of the bearded vulture ...
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With more snowstorms coming to the Alps this week, bearded vultures are… breeding!
As yet another storm is about to dump very heavy snow in ...
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An European vulture in Mauritania – and an African one in Spain
Last month some Dutch birdwatchers recorded a young cinereous vulture at Iouik ...
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New paper: eggshell thickness from bearded vulture eggs from the Pyrenees decreased abruptly after 2004
Shell thickness of bearded vulture eggs from the period 1989 to 2012 ...
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Two cinereous vultures found dead, presumably poisoned, in Thrace (Greece)
Poison is the main threat to vultures worldwide, as identified in the ...
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