{"id":15266,"date":"2021-02-13T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4vultures.org\/?p=15266"},"modified":"2025-05-05T15:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T12:47:04","slug":"most-recent-gps-movements-of-58-bearded-vultures-across-seven-important-european-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/pt\/blog\/most-recent-gps-movements-of-58-bearded-vultures-across-seven-important-european-regions\/","title":{"rendered":"Most recent GPS movements of 58 Bearded Vultures across seven important European regions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bearded Vulture in flight (c) Bruno Berthemy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A International Bearded Vulture Monitoring Network (IBM)<\/a> monitors Bearded Vultures across seven different regions in Austria, France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Besides the common observations and the monitoring of the breeding pairs, the monitoring with GPS tags is important. Monitoring 58-tagged birds entails analyzing their movements to help inform conservation actions and tracking them daily to ensure their wellbeing. Both released and wild-hatched birds are equipped with GPS tags. Their age varies, with the youngest at their 2nd calendar year (CY) and the oldest in her 23rd! This past month, the young wandering Bearded Vulture Pierro continued travelling to unusual areas<\/a> for the species, and the oldest, Veronika, also travelled vast distances, making a long round trip. In this blog post, we review the January 2021 movements of the birds monitored with the IBM-Network by the local partners across the Alps, Massif Central, Maestrazgo and Corsica where we carry out reintroduction and restocking projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alps<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bearded Vulture was driven to extinction in the Alps during the 20th Century, and to bring them back, pioneers from all Alpine countries initiated the reintroduction project in the 1970s<\/a>. The first birds were released in 1986 at Hohe Tauern National Park (Austria), and in 1997 the first breeding pair successfully raised a chick in the wild in France. Today, there are around 300 Bearded Vultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The partners in the IBM network monitor the movements in the Central, Eastern, South-Western and North-Western Alps across Austria, France, Italy and Switzerland. The maps show the different birds, based on their geographic origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n