{"id":21942,"date":"2022-01-14T19:39:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T17:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/?p=21942"},"modified":"2025-05-05T15:46:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T12:46:57","slug":"first-african-white-backed-vulture-fitted-with-gps-transmitter-in-spain-and-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/pt\/blog\/first-african-white-backed-vulture-fitted-with-gps-transmitter-in-spain-and-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"First African White-backed Vulture fitted with GPS transmitter in Spain and Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"617\" src=\"http:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-White-backed-Vulture-was-caught-and-fitted-with-a-GPS-transmitter-in-southern-Spain-on-3-December-2021-Inglorious-Bustards-1024x617.jpeg\" alt=\"First African White-backed Vulture fitted with GPS transmitter in Spain and Europe\" class=\"wp-image-21947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-White-backed-Vulture-was-caught-and-fitted-with-a-GPS-transmitter-in-southern-Spain-on-3-December-2021-Inglorious-Bustards-1024x617.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-White-backed-Vulture-was-caught-and-fitted-with-a-GPS-transmitter-in-southern-Spain-on-3-December-2021-Inglorious-Bustards-300x181.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-White-backed-Vulture-was-caught-and-fitted-with-a-GPS-transmitter-in-southern-Spain-on-3-December-2021-Inglorious-Bustards-768x463.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-White-backed-Vulture-was-caught-and-fitted-with-a-GPS-transmitter-in-southern-Spain-on-3-December-2021-Inglorious-Bustards.jpeg 1235w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The White-backed Vulture was caught and fitted with a GPS transmitter in southern Spain on 3 December 2021 \u00a9 Inglorious Bustards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A White-backed Vulture (<em>Gyps africanus<\/em>), a rare vagrant species to Europe, became the first in Spain and the continent equipped with a GPS transmitter.&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fundacionmigres.org\/en\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fundaci\u00f3n Migres<\/a>&nbsp;tagged the vulture as part of a study evaluating African vulture colonisation patterns in the Palearctic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Monitoring the first White-backed Vulture tagged in Europe<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>On 3 December 2021, a White-backed Vulture was trapped and subsequently equipped with identification rings and a GPS transmitter in southern Spain to track its movements and behaviour. After examining recent observations of the species, experts determined that in 2021 at least two White-backed Vultures visited the Spanish side of the Gibraltar Strait, and a further two were marked on the Moroccan side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-African-White-backed-Vulture-photographed-after-its-release-back-to-the-wild-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"First African White-backed Vulture fitted with GPS transmitter in Spain and Europe\" class=\"wp-image-21950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-African-White-backed-Vulture-photographed-after-its-release-back-to-the-wild-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-African-White-backed-Vulture-photographed-after-its-release-back-to-the-wild-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-African-White-backed-Vulture-photographed-after-its-release-back-to-the-wild-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-African-White-backed-Vulture-photographed-after-its-release-back-to-the-wild-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/4vultures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-African-White-backed-Vulture-photographed-after-its-release-back-to-the-wild.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The African White-backed Vulture photographed after its release back to the wild \u00a9 Fundaci\u00f3n Migres<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The GPS data collected and analysed can provide insight into understanding wider conservation issues and vagrancy patterns potentially linked to declining populations of the largely sedentary African vultures. Just like the presence of <a href=\"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/pt\/blog\/europes-5th-vulture-species\/\">R\u00fcppell\u2019s Vultures<\/a> has been increasing in North Africa and southern Europe, especially Iberia, so too could sightings of White-backed Vultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>African White-backed Vulture threats and conservation implications&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The White-backed Vulture (<em>Gyps africanus<\/em>) is a Sub-Saharan African vultures species occurring from Mauritania east to Sudan and Ethiopia and south to northern and eastern South Africa. Once widespread, the species has suffered steep population declines in recent years, with the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org\/species\/22695189\/204461164#geographic-range\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IUCN\u2019s Red List of Threatened Species now considering the White-backed Vulture as Critically Endangered<\/a>. The successive and frequent poisoning incidents in Africa are the key drivers behind the rapid decline of several vulture species. In addition, illegal trapping and killing for traditional belief practices, national and international illegal trade, collisions with power infrastructure, changes in habitat mosaics, possible lack of food availability and losses of nesting trees also pose problems for African vulture species like the White-backed Vulture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As these multiple threats continue to cause adverse consequences on vulture populations in the continent, motivation towards vagrancy could increase, which could lead to hybridisation and reverse gene flow back to the sub-Saharan African vulture population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, researchers suggest that if the presence of African vultures continues to grow in southern Europe, it could potentially result in a new breeding population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Acknowledgements&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This project would not be possible without the financial help of Viking Optical and Do\u00f1ana Biological Station 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