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Apex scavengers from different European populations converge at threatened savannah landscapes

An international scientific team found that “dehesas”, savannah-like systems from the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, attract Eurasian griffon vultures from distant populations from Northern,...

Use of avian GPS tracking to mitigate human fatalities from bird strikes caused by large soaring birds

A research team from the Doñana Biological Station-CSIC and the Miguel Hernández University tracked griffon and cinereous vultures and white storks to study their flight patterns
These species...

Human footprint and vulture mortality

Events of non-natural mortality in human-dominated landscapes are especially challenging for populations of large vertebrates with K strategies. Among birds, vultures are one of the most threatened...