The future of Europe’s only migratory vulture lies in your hands

10.05.2016

With the slogan ”... and when the skies fall silent?” , World Migratory Bird Day 2016 aims to highlight the incredible numbers of migratory birds being lost each year as a result of illegal killing, taking and trade. On this special day, the LIFE project “Return of the Neophron” has chosen to highlight the plight of the Egyptian vulture ,...

The Return of the Neophron organizes an exhibition in the center of Plovdiv

09.05.2016

May 9 - Europe Day, at 10.30 am the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) within the LIFE project "The Return of the Neophron" with the support of the Municipal Foundation “Plovdiv 2019″ organizes ehhibition in Plobdiv dedicated to one of the rarest birds in the world - vultures and the Maritsa River and the island of Adata, which are home to a...

Messages in the sky for the Egyptian Vulture

04.05.2016

120 students, five schools in Thrace and one of the most endangered bird of prey in the world. Students from Thrace (Secondary school of Soufli, Secondary school of Tichero, Primary school of Tichero, Secondary of Iasmos and Primary school of Sapes) for the fourth consecutive year, are standing by the side of the endangered Egyptian vulture, ''learning its secrets'' and...

All of the adult Egyptian vultures with satellite transmitters are at their breeding grounds on the Balkans

25.04.2016

Do you remember Boris and Jenny – the Egyptian vultures from Eastern Rhodopes tagged with satellite transmitters last summer? Boris came back on 21-st of March. Jenny came too late, so her partner has a new wife. She is in the area of her ex nest, but we can only guess if they will get together. Aoos – the adut Egyptian vulture from Albania, tagged...

Results from the nest guarding in Bulgaria and Greece from 2012 to 2015

25.04.2016

The nest guarding programme implemented under the project “The Return of the Neophron” aimed to prevent direct threats to Egyptian vulture nests such as disturbance, nest robbing and persecution, and as added value, to collect data on the biology and ecology of the species. People directly involved in the nest guarding programme were carefully selected based...

Results from the individual supplementary feeding of the Egyptian vulture

18.04.2016

The individual supplementary feeding is a pilot conservation action in which mobile teams of field assistants of the LIFE project “The Return of the Neophron” regularly provide small quantities of high quality meat in proximity to the breeding pairs of Egyptian Vultures during the breeding season. It is well known that supplementary feeding through feeding...