An international team of scientists reveals in a new study that the abandonment of traditional livestock farming activities, such as transhumance, could be detrimental to scavenger communities. This activity has configured landscape across the world and has created ecosystems, which have benefited a great number of animal and plant species, including vultures. The research work has been carried out by scientists at the University of Granada, the Miguel Hernández University, the Doñana...

A scientific team led by the Miguel Hernández University of Elche with the collaboration of the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC has analysed the basic patterns of movements of several populations of griffon vultures in Spain. Their movements are influenced by individual sex, breeding region and other environmental factors.

Results show that the management of these species, which exploit very large areas, cannot be approached at the local level and requires the collaboration...

The monitoring of an experimental feeding station established in northern Spain allowed the evaluation of how this type of resource, predictable in space but not in time, was exploited by a guild of avian scavengers in relation to factors such as season, hour of disposal and presence of the dominant species.