Interesting news from Djibouti

11.06.2013

Eleyeh Omar, one of the participants in the BSPB training seminar in Ethiopia held in January this year for research and conservation of Egyptian vultures, had the opportunity to demonstrate the gain experience. His team from Nature Djibouti ( the BirdLife parter for Djibouti ) made an interesting observation of migration of adult Egyptian vultures in...

„Bulgarian“ Egyptian vulture in Egypt

10.06.2013

More and more often we can see the results of BSPB hard work for marking rare raptors. On 27th of April this year the photographer Ahmed Waheed made this photo of „our“ bird in Eastern Egypt. Although that the code of the ring is unreadable it is clearly visible the yellow color and the position of the ring. They are the undisputed prove for one of the marked...

Egyptian Vulture from the Eastern Rhodopes settled in Northern Bulgaria

04.06.2013

We recently published news about a bird with a green ring on the left leg , which formed a pair in Northern Bulgaria. At this stage we couldn’t say anything but the bird is from generation 2008 because we were not able to decipher the code of the ring. Thanks to the photographic skills and diligence of one of our most experienced associates - Dimitar Nedelchev, who...

A giant hug for the Egyptian vultures of Thrace

02.06.2013

You can count the remaining active nests of the Egyptian vulture for the entire Thrace on the fingers of one hand. A species that only few decades before could be found in the hundreds in Greece has dropped to a number of less than twenty breeding pairs, placing it amongst the most endangered animals in the country. Consequently the last bastions of the species presence in...

The exposition “The Return of the Neophron” installed in Provadia

30.05.2013

After a trip through the cities of Sofia, Ruse and Plovdiv, the travel exposition “The Return of the Neophron” visited the town of Provadia, where it is staying till the end of June. The exposition was created with the launch of the LIFE+ project on the Egyptian vulture, funded by the EC. It consists of eleven information boards with photographs and messages...

BSPB presents the amazing film “Flying away” in Dobrich featuring the Egyptian vultures

30.05.2013

On 3 of June (Monday) at 7:00 p.m. in the Ikar cinema in Dobrich city will be comprised the screening of the amazing popular science film about wild birds in Bulgaria "Flying away". The film was created by the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) and Mono Collective with the support of the “America for Bulgaria”. The 40-minute film tells the...