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Two captive bred Egyptian vultures released in Italy
Last week two young Egyptian vultures bred in captivity were released in ...
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The first baby Griffon Vulture born in the Balkan Mountains for almost a century baptized as Michel – a deserved celebration of one of VCF´s mentors
For more than a decade our Bulgarian colleagues have been dreaming about ...
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Vultures in West and Central Africa threatened by trade for bushmeat and fetish
We already knew that the situation with vultures in Africa was dire ...
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Egyptian Vultures found breeding in Niger
The Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus) – one of the smallest vultures in ...
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New paper discusses supplementary feeding programs for European vultures, and makes recommendations for the management of vulture feeding sites
Ideally, all scavenger species, including vultures, should survive based primarily on natural ...
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New paper published on risks of anti-parasitic veterinary products to bearded vultures
As scavengers that often feed on the carcasses of domestic cattle, vultures ...
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At least six black vultures found dead near waste treatment plant in central Spain
In the last days of July the conservation NGO “Colectivo Azálvaro” have ...
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Fly Esperanza fly!
First bearded vulture born in the wild in Andalucia this century flew ...
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Bearded vultures in Corsica and in Crete – an update
Bearded vultures were at one point confined to the Pyrenees, Corsica and ...
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Call for volunteers for the 2015 Alpine summering griffon vulture census – 22 August 2015
Since 2010 a census of summering griffon vultures has been carried out, ...
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Another Egyptian vulture poisoned in Greece
Only a few days after 70+ Egyptian vulture experts from all over ...
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New paper published on feather moult in bearded vultures
Bearded vultures only start breeding after they are 7-8 years in life, ...
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The bearded vulture in the French Pyrenees in 2014
The annual report on the results of all the monitoring and research ...
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Griffon with tongue protruding from the neck observed in France
On the 26th July Francesco Panuello saw and photographed 6 griffon vultures ...
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The first wild bearded vulture chick to be born in southern Spain in the last 30 years already has a name: Esperanza (Hope)
Following a public vote organized by the Junta de Andalucia, the bearded ...
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Tizón is spending its first summer in Mauritania
Last time (in May) we gave you news of Tizón – the ...
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Bearded vulture seen in Corfu- rare observation of this species in the Balkan Peninsula, where it is extinct
A second-calendar year bearded vulture – a bird born in 2014, has ...
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And it makes 15! Last young bearded vulture of the year to be released tomorrow in Andalucía
Tomorrow the last bearded vulture to be released this year in the ...
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Name the first wild bearded vulture chick to be born in southern Spain in the last 30 years!
To celebrate the first successful breeding in the wild of bearded vultures ...
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Proposed status changes for six species of African vulture
Following the publication of a recent paper by Ogada et al. (2015) ...
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