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Written by Johan van Rensburg   
Monday, 07 July 2008

Did you know… that the Bearded Vulture population in southern Africa has significantly decreased from the 1980s is continuing to decline?

 

The entire southern African population is now estimated to be less than 300 birds and the population is continuing to decline by two percent per annum. The total number of active nest sites has declined from an estimated 240 in the early 1980’s to 92 at present.

 

KZN researchers in collaboration with ornithologists in Spain, Switzerland and France in 2007 initiated a study using satellite transmitters fitted to three Bearded Vultures. This is the first time outside of Europe that this technology has been used on this species. The data collected is already revealing insights into the movement of individual birds, some of which range from the south-eastern Free State to the north-eastern Eastern Cape in the space of a week. A new nest site in the eastern Free State where Bearded Vultures were thought to have disappeared has also been discovered.

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at Friday, 11 July 2008 17:13by Jay
my dad was discussing this with me in the car on the way from KNP, says they used to spot them on their granparents farm in in what was then the Transvaal but they are no longer found there :-(((...also says his granparents used to tell the children if they dont go to sleep early the Lammergaaier will come get them LOL!
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at Saturday, 12 July 2008 19:18by prwin
Taking at one of the last refuges .Gaint Castle kZN
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at Monday, 14 July 2008 18:24by Candys Style
Great to hear about the new nest found but the statistics are scary!
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