Volcà, an adult Egyptian vulture from the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park gets to Africa!

Egyptian vulture

Volcà (meaning Volcano in Catalan) is an adult Egyptian vulture from a pair nesting in the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park where this year they raised a chick. On the 18th August, Volcà was captured and equipped with a GPS-GSM emitter. It was one of the 22...

Willy the fast: A Young Egyptian vulture

Egyptian vulture

As part of the ringing and marking programme for the population of Egyptian vultures in Central and Eastern Catalonia carried out by the Conservation Biology Group of the University of Barcelona (see more information here), on the 28th June a chick was ringed in the...

Studying Egyptian vultures with GPS, a novel tool for conservation

Egyptian vulture

The Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus) is a globally endangered species, being the Iberian Peninsula where we find one of its most important populations. In this area, its populations have dramatically decreased during the last decades mainly due to the loss of...

Increasing population of Egyptian vulture in Central and Northeastern Catalonia during Covid-19

Egyptian vulture

During the decade of 60s of the past century, the Egyptian vulture extinguished from extensive parts of Catalonia and only remained few pairs in Western areas near Aragon. In 1980s, a new pair recolonized an ancient area further East. From 1990s, the ancient...

Egyptian vulture migration to Africa: a way full of dangers

Egyptian vulture

Within the framework of the project “Application of new technologies to know the effects of global and local change in the Iberian populations of Egyptian vulture. Applications for conservation” (see related news) 6 Egyptian vultures were equipped with...