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Tomorrow´s Greek vultures will depend on today´s Greek children
Vulture conservation often requires changes to people´s behavior – stopping using poison ...
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Bearded vultures and lead poisoning – lead-free pilot sites on the cards in the French Pyrenees
Lead (Pb) is a metabolic poison that can negatively influence biological processes, ...
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Training of Portuguese partners on tagging vultures with GPS tags
As part of the LIFE RUPIS project, the VCF and its partners ...
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The adventures of a cinereous vulture in Jordan
The cinereous vulture is a rare passage migrant and/or winter visitor in ...
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Have you ever seen a pig flying? And a griffon swimming?
The Medraptors blog recently brought us a wonderful story – see photos ...
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New paper – bearded vulture foraging behaviour in the Pyrenees unaffected by policy-driven carcass management measures
The potential availability of food for vultures and other scavenging birds in ...
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Even Meerkats detect the decline of African vultures! (paper)
Vulture populations are experiencing rapid declines in many parts of the globe, ...
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All Egyptian vulture’s roads lead to the Douro – or the case of Tizón!
Last weekend Domingos Leitão, the director of the Portuguese Society for the ...
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Help needed for translation of Der Falke magazine from German to English
VCF is still looking for volunteer translators (preferably native English speakers who ...
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Unlikely heroes behind the bearded vulture captive breeding programme – Andreas Eder and the animal transport van from Schönbrunn Zoo
There are now more than 40 bearded vulture pairs in the Alps, ...
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Black vulture shows up in the eastern Alps
Once widespread throughout southern Europe, the black vulture now has a disjunct ...
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The bearded vulture in Corsica in 2017: 4 pairs and no breeding in the wild, but the young released as part of the restocking programme doing well
This year the bearded vulture population in Corsica comprised 4 breeding pairs, ...
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Der Falke special edition on vultures now available to order
A special edition of the German bird magazine “Der Falke”, totally focussed ...
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Griffon vultures are breeding again in Cyprus and recolonised area not used for years
Following a string of bad news – some poisoning incidents and no ...
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Barcelona Zoo sent 3 captive-bred griffons for the vulture reintroduction project in Bulgaria
The Zoo of Barcelona donated three young male griffon vultures for the ...
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Adult bearded vulture rescued and re-released back to the wild in the French Alps
On the 5th of June, a female adult bearded vulture – named ...
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Guidelines for feeding bearded vultures in captivity are now also available in French
100 years after going extinct in the Alps, the bearded vulture is ...
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Observarribas is here!
The 1st edition of Observarribas, a festival of bird watching and outdoor ...
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New paper on guidelines for evaluation and treatment of lead poisoning of wild raptors
Lead poisoning is a threat to birds, particularly scavenging birds of prey, ...
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Looking for (bearded vulture) Kilian
Kilian is an immature bearded vulture released in Austria in 2014 (Hohe ...
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