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Tag: Rüppell’s Vulture

Growing Demand for Vulture Heads Threatens the Birds’ Survival in Africa

Growing Demand for Vulture Heads Threatens the Birds’ Survival in Africa

April 20, 2021April 19, 2021 Supertrooper Leave a comment

Across the continent, traditional healers are increasingly using the body parts of vultures, creating an illegal market that has experts alarmed. Last year, at dawn on March 26, an exhausted Mohamed Henriques slid into his airplane seat. He had just managed to make it onto the last flight that left Guinea-Bissau before the small West […]

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African vulture pilot study aims to reduce poisoning deaths

African vulture pilot study aims to reduce poisoning deaths

March 27, 2016December 23, 2019 Supertrooper 1 Comment

Saving Africa’s Vultures, a new project to tackle the continent’s escalating vulture crisis, is now up and running, with three initial, targeted pilot schemes in Botswana, Kenya and Zimbabwe that aim to find out more about – and significantly reduce – the greatest threat facing African vultures: poisoning. Eleven species of vulture occur in Africa, […]

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Pick on someone your own size!

Pick on someone your own size!

April 7, 2015December 23, 2019 Mike Barth Leave a comment

Whilst on a short Safari recently in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya with Nature’s Wonderland Safaris, we came across a watering pool with White-headed and Rüppell’s Vultures along with Steppe Eagles. There was a mound that was a good vantage point for one of the Steppe Eagles. However a Rüppell’s Vulture had other ideas and thought […]

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Melanistic Montagu’s Harrier and other Raptors

Melanistic Montagu’s Harrier and other Raptors

October 14, 2014December 23, 2019 Stephen Daly 1 Comment

Here are some of the raptor photos we managed to see with my Swiss group from Arcatour last week. The wind direction swung around to give us moderate to strong Levante (easterlies) for five days and only died down on our last two days. Still, knowing what the migrating raptors do and where they will […]

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Rüppell’s Vulture Sightings in Europe

Rüppell’s Vulture Sightings in Europe

October 2, 2014December 24, 2019 Stephen Daly Leave a comment

After watching a huge flock of Griffon Vultures circling over the evergreen cork-oak canopy of the vast Alcornocales Parque Natural we eventually saw many birds descend down to the ground and out of sight. We could hear their hissing and squabbling and immediately knew that the birds were feeding at an animal carcass of some […]

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A Kettle of Vultures in a Poisonous Mix

A Kettle of Vultures in a Poisonous Mix

March 26, 2014December 23, 2019 Supertrooper 2 Comments

Increasingly today, East Africa is one of the few places one is likely to have the visceral experience of witnessing vultures crowded over newly found carrion, competing to quickly and efficiently render it to a few large bones and fur. Sadly it is precisely this astonishing ability to fly with ease across seasons and countries, […]

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Thermals and more…

Thermals and more…

August 21, 2013December 23, 2019 Stephen Daly Leave a comment

Migration: Black Kites are the first raptor to migrate and cross The Strait of Gibraltar. The skies will continue to be filled with them slowly moving down towards Tarifa and if the wind is too strong for them to cross to Morocco there will be a huge build up as more and more arrive in […]

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Vultures in Spain

Vultures in Spain

April 8, 2013December 22, 2019 Stephen Daly 3 Comments

There are four different species of vultures breeding on the Iberian peninsula and probably the Lammergeier is the most impressive of them all. It’s also one of the birds on most raptor enthusiast’s wish list and not always an easy bird to see at close range. Like many people until I saw one at a […]

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