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The Changing Fortunes of Europe’s Vultures – Part 1

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In Franco’s day, a price was paid to farmers and hunters who brought evidence of having shot “vermin”. A Griffon Vulture ditches in the sea off Gibraltar and struggles to keep its head above the water Since 2003, Ruppell’s Vultures Gyps ruepelli , have been showing up with the Griffons. All this changed with protection.

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Flock to Marion

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South Africa is their steward and have been declared Special Nature Reserves under the South African Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act in 2003, which restricts activities on the islands to research and conservation management. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

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But, says Cantor, “’animal science’ rejects scientific knowledge: that humans are natural herbivores and did not evolve as hunters as formerly believed; eating from animals is linked to the most widespread and devastating chronic diseases; and more.” Many of the LGUs have replied, some of them many times.

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Collaborative list – September 2018

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The migrants face many perils, hunters, predators, adverse weather conditions and lack of refueling opportunities due to habitat loss. The beats have been out to line their route and cheer them along, wishing them bon voyage and a safe return next spring. At the far ends of the world, our southern beats are poised to welcome them back.

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Birding Shanghai in April 2024 (The Colors of Spring)

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A short paper i n the Journal of the Natural History of African Birds points out shoddy research that ended up describing the Eurasian Hobby as a “hunter of dusk and dawn” It is not. Another paper hypothesizes that the Eurasian Hobby has “false eyes” at the back of its head, much like the Collared Owlet.

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