Bearded Vulture risk map and screening tool

We have used sighting and nest location records and tracking data to develop an advanced habitat-suitability spatial data set for use as a screening tool to help visualise the severity of risks to Bearded Vultures associated with proposed developments. Developments placed in areas with higher risk are likely to have increasing detrimental impacts on the viability of this Critically Endangered species. You can assess the potential impacts of your proposed development using the two maps that are provided here.

Identifying the origin of lead poisoning in white‑backed vulture (Gyps africanus) chicks at an important South African breeding colony: a stable lead isotope approach

Ecology and Management of Bearded Vultures – Krueger and Amar

Lead Poisoning in Vultures

Poster: Vultures – Save them from Vanishing

Poster: Bearded Vulture – Bone Eaters of the Berg

Evidence of Genetic Structure in the Wide‑ranging Bearded Vulture (2021)

Brink et al – Feeding Site Contributions to Vultures (2020)

Brink et al – Perceptions of Feeding Site Managers (2020)

Thompson and Blackmore: Review of the Legal Protection of Vultures in South Africa (2019)

A Practical Guide to Methods for Attaching Research Devices to Vultures and Condors

Microorganisms in Vultures for Wildlife Conservation, Ecosystem Services and Public Health

Potential release sites and strategies for a Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) reintroduction in South Africa

Quantifying the spatial distribution and trends of
supplementary feeding sites in South Africa and their
potential contribution to vulture energetic requirements

Breeding Bearded Vulture dies after colliding with cable in Vanoise

Hunters Should Stop Using Lead Bullets and Help Save the Vultures

Gazetted Bearded Vulture Biodiversity Management Plan (8 May 2014)

Anthropogenic activities influence the abandonment of Bearded Vulture territories in southern Africa

Cape Vulture usurps Bearded Vulture nest

Differential Range Use between Age Classes of Southern African Bearded Vultures

Insights into post-fledging dispersal of Bearded
Vultures in southern Africa from GPS satellite telemetry

Lead Exposure in the Critically Endangered Bearded Vulture Population in Southern Africa

New Cape Vulture (Gyps coprotheres) roosts in the Free State Province, South Africa

Another Continental Vulture Crisis: Africa’s Vultures Collapsing toward Extinction

Polyandrous trios in the southern African Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) meridionalis?

Productivity of the declining Bearded Vulture population in southern Africa

Ranging behaviour of a juvenile Bearded Vulture in South Africa revealed by GPS satellite telemetry

Reduced genetic diversity in Bearded Vultures (Gypaetus barbatus) in Southern Africa

Trends in territory occupancy, distribution and density of the Bearded Vulture meridionalis in southern Africa

Using spatial analyses of bearded vulture movements in southern Africa to inform wind turbine placement