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Check out the latest news and stories about vultures and our conservation work
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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Two adult Egyptian vultures have been captured and tagged in the Douro – another great milestone in the LIFE RUPIS project
In the late afternoon of the 12th June, a team from the ...
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What have Jana and Tempestosa, the two griffons tagged in Sardinia, been up to?
The young female griffon vultures that have been released the 9th of ...
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Two more bearded vultures released yesterday in Andalusia
This year a total of 6 bearded vultures will be released in ...
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Saving the bearded vulture in Corsica – Luna and Ercu released last weekend
Last Sunday the 3rd of June, two young bearded vultures born within ...
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Diet of Egyptian vulture in Sicily
A new paper researching the Dietary habits of Egyptian vultures in Sicily ...
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Two young Spanish bearded vultures will be released in the Swiss Mountains today
For the third year in a row, two young bearded vultures will ...
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5 more bearded vultures released back into the wild yesterday by VCF and its partners – 2 in Vercors (Pre-Alps), 2 in Corsica and 1 in Andalucia
This year the VCF and its partners are hoping to release 18 ...
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Adult Egyptian vulture released in the Douro after being found weakened
On May 29, a weakened adult Egyptian vulture was picked up by ...
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Great news from Andalusia – the two breeding pairs of bearded vulture continue to raise their young in Cazorla!
Last January we were very happy to announce that a second bearded ...
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