Landscape factors affecting territory occupancy and breeding success of Egyptian Vultures on the Balkan Peninsula: new paper

Egyptian Vulture. Photo Bruno Berthémy

Data on territory occupancy and breeding success for 87 different territories of the Endangered Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus in the Balkans were correlated with 48 different environmental variables to understand the relative influence of various factors on population declines. The analysis included 405 breeding events between 2003 […]

December 5th, 2016 | Category: Egyptian vulture, Vulture Conservation Foundation | Comments are closed

RSPB Scotland responds to gift of grouse Press Release.

[airesizeimg src=”http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/rspb-2.gif” alt=”rspb-2″ class=”alignleft size-full wp-image-21656″ ]RSPB Scotland has dismissed a press release issued today by the “Gift of Grouse” campaign that attempts to draw a veil over the continued persecution of birds of prey on areas of land managed intensively for driven grouse shooting. The reports on which these assertions are based are not […]

December 5th, 2016 | Category: Grouse Moors, Grouse shooting, Raptor Persecution, red grouse | Comments are closed