vultures Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Critically Endangered vulture shows resilience

By Zoey Greenberg|2023-10-12T10:44:41+00:0025 Sep 2023|Bird Protection, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, Breeding, breeding success, Conservation, global change, monitoring, protected areas, vultures|

Eleven years of successful nesting suggest protective measures work

What shapes Griffon Vultures’ social networks?

By Orr Spiegel|2023-06-13T22:32:49+00:0022 Jun 2023|behaviour, bird movements, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, communication, flight, gps tags, movements, raptors, satellite tracking, scavengers, soaring birds, vultures|

Vultures’ social interactions across different situations matter for their population structure

How is climate change affecting Bearded Vulture ranges?

By Tulsi Subedi|2022-11-07T10:13:16+00:0010 Nov 2022|adaptation, Africa, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, climate, climate change, distribution, ecology, global change, habitat, Himalayan birds, IBIS, modelling, raptors, scavengers, soaring birds, vultures|

Modelling Bearded Vulture distributions under various climate scenarios

Spotting tagged birds from photographs

By Andrea Santangeli|2022-07-19T09:59:44+00:0021 Jul 2022|camara traps, cameras, IBIS, image processing, machine learning, monitoring, raptors, remote sensing, scavengers, vultures|

Using artificial intelligence to identify tagged birds in camera trap images

Colouration in Bearded Vultures

By Pascual López-López|2022-02-03T14:35:55+00:0031 Jan 2022|avian biology, birds of prey, communication, IBIS, non-vocal communication, plumage, raptors, reproductive signalling, soaring birds, vultures|

Dominant females are usually darker and prefer darker males for breeding: a new study on bird colouration

Connecting vultures to the Internet of Things

By Jethro Gauld|2023-10-16T08:49:19+00:0020 Dec 2021|bio-logging, birds of prey, BOU-funded, early career, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, gps tags, movement, raptors, satellite tracking, scavengers, soaring birds, tracking, vultures|

A new way to track bird movements using a growing LoRa network

Modelling suitable vulture breeding areas on Sardinia

By Fiammetta Berlinguer|2021-09-30T13:02:22+00:0027 Sep 2021|Bayesian modelling, birds of prey, habitat selection, IBIS, nesting, nesting success, reproduction, scavengers, soaring birds, vultures|

Bayesian hierarchical modelling identifies predictors of reproductive success in Griffon Vultures

Counting Cape Vultures

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-12-16T14:00:04+00:003 Dec 2020|birds of prey, monitoring, News, vultures|

How often should you monitor populations to identify general population trends?

Vultures and condors may help to prevent the spread of infectious diseases

By Pablo Plaza |2020-10-05T21:01:40+00:005 Aug 2020|behaviour, condors, disease, infectious diseases, scavengers, vultures|

While pathogen microorganisms colonise obligate scavenger birds, there is no clear evidence of them spreading pathogens to the ecosystem

Too close for comfort? Coloniality and density dependence in vultures

By Darío Fernández-Bellon|2021-04-16T14:38:01+00:002 Jan 2018|colonial birds, communal, competition, vultures|

Trade-off between the benefits and costs of coloniality in a recovering population of Cinereous Vultures