Vultures are an ecologically vital group of birds that face a range of threats in many areas that they occur. Populations of many species are under pressure and some species are facing extinction. The International Vulture Awareness Day has grown from Vulture Awareness Days run by the

Very sad and unfortunate, another cape vulture was killed by collision with a power line. Kate Webster helped us out and visited the place from which we got permanent location signals indicating that the vulture was dead. She summarized stories of two different vulture, one of which w

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Last year, we radio-tagged five juvenile vultures. Now, they are flying between 200 and 300 km afar from their home colony. Here are three screenshots were three (N110, N101, N103) of the vulture slept tonight. Nice landscape with impressive rock formations.

When thinking about vultures form a conservation point-of-view, we almost immediately talk about the dramatic loss of animals in the Indian subcontinent due to diclofenac … Now, it turns out that also in Europe vulture conservation faces a similar problem … The Vulture Con

Have a look at this trailer to the Gypaetus barbatus movie … back to the Alps. Amazing. Des Gypaetes et des Hommes – Official Movie Trailer from Mathieu Le Lay on Vimeo.

… have a look at this short video clip by BBC. They use a vulture model to soar with it`s “conspecifics” along the cliffs ..

Hi vulture fans, on Friday evening, Jörg Albrecht and Dana will present the Cape Vulture project in a talk at a meeting of the “nature photographers” group in Marburg, Germany. More details (in German) can be found here. VulPro – 10 day old Cape Vulture Chick in Nest

Dear vulture fans, the December 2012 issue of the VulPro News is available. Please find the pdf-document >here<. Best your vulture team

Since mid-January 2013, five juvenile Cape Vultures from the Mzimkulu colony near Oribi Gorge have been exploring the world. Follow their travels in our latest news section. Your Cape vulture team