Lone vulture flies 4,000km to reach TN from Maharashtra
1 week, 1 day ago

Lone vulture flies 4,000km to reach TN from Maharashtra

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: A one-year-old captive-bred, juvenile white-rumped vulture, has taken a 4,000-km-long flight from the Tadoba National Park in Maharashtra to Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu. The weary bird, which made numerous pit stops in its sojourn including Chennai, has been resting its wings at an abandoned agricultural plot in Aranthangi for the past four days. The Maharashtra forest department and Bombay Natural History Society have GPS-tagged 20 vultures, all brought from the Vulture Conservation Breeding Centre in Pinjore, Haryana. As per GPS data shared with TNIE, the vulture has so far covered 4,000km, stopping briefly in different states over five months.

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Wings of hope: Can Ramanagara revive its vulture population?
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Wings of hope: Can Ramanagara revive its vulture population?

The Hindu  

The nature enthusiasts who gathered at the Ramadevarabetta vulture sanctuary on the morning of September 14 were one lucky batch. What awaited the group was a glorious view of the only pair of critically endangered long-billed vultures in the sanctuary, perched about 3,000 feet high on the crevice of a monolith that’s characteristic of Ramanagara. The Karnataka Forest Department and …

Long-billed Vultures in Nilgiris: Human Disturbances and Conservation
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Long-billed Vultures in Nilgiris: Human Disturbances and Conservation

The Hindu  

The Nilgiris is home to some nesting sites of the critically endangered long-billed vulture. “The Ebbanad Nesting Colony had two nests in 2018, but the number came down to one the next year, most likely because of tourism,” said Mr. Manigandan. “While the loss of a single nest may not seem much, it needs to be understood that the breeding …

In a first, captive-bred vultures give birth in wild at Bengal’s Rajabhatkhawa
10 months, 2 weeks ago

In a first, captive-bred vultures give birth in wild at Bengal’s Rajabhatkhawa

Hindustan Times  

Kolkata: Two captive-bred white-backed vultures in West Bengal’s Rajabhatkhawa have given birth to a chick in the wild, state forest department officials said on Sunday, describing it as a “conservation milestone”. Captive-bred white backed vulture in West Bengal’s Rajabhatkhawa wildlife sanctuary Although the vulture has been born in the captive centres, this is one of the first instances of captive-bred …

India’s southernmost vulture population stands at 320 individuals
11 months, 2 weeks ago

India’s southernmost vulture population stands at 320 individuals

The Hindu  

More than 300 vultures were recorded in the recently completed synchronous vulture survey in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve encompassing parts of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, according to data from the Tamil Nadu Forest Department. A total of 217 critically endangered white-rumped vultures, 47 long-billed vultures, 50 Asian king vultures, four endangered Egyptian vultures and two “near threatened” Himalayan griffon …

White-rumped vulture faces a perilous future in Nilgris’ Sigur plateau
1 year, 6 months ago

White-rumped vulture faces a perilous future in Nilgris’ Sigur plateau

The Hindu  

Despite the protective measures, the future remains extremely perilous for the critically endangered white-rumped vulture in the Sigur plateau in the Nilgiris, the last southernmost viable breeding population for the species in India. It was conducted by Samson Arockianathan for his doctoral thesis, ‘Studies on Population, Breeding Ecology and Conservation Threats of Critically Endangered White-rumped vulture in the Mudumalai Tiger …

246 vultures spotted in first-ever synchronised survey in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka
1 year, 9 months ago

246 vultures spotted in first-ever synchronised survey in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka

The Hindu  

As many as 246 vultures were spotted in the first ever synchronised survey conducted along the borders of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka on February 25 and 26. The estimation was carried out in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve and the adjoining landscape consisting of Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu, Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary in Kerala, Bandipur Tiger Reserve and Nagerhole …

Missing Critically Endangered White-rumped Vulture from Nepal Found in Bihar
2 years, 1 month ago

Missing Critically Endangered White-rumped Vulture from Nepal Found in Bihar

News 18  

A missing critically endangered white-rumped vulture, being used by Nepal to monitor the population of the species and the success of a breeding drive, has been rescued in Darbhanga in Bihar earlier this month, officials here said. Its disappearance had been a matter of concern for the wildlife officials of Nepal till it was caught by the Bhagalpur bird ringing …

Vulture Rescued During Tamil Nadu's Ockhi Cyclone in 2017 Set to Fly After 5 Years
2 years, 2 months ago

Vulture Rescued During Tamil Nadu's Ockhi Cyclone in 2017 Set to Fly After 5 Years

News 18  

A 7-year-old Cinereous vulture that was rescued from the 2017 Ockhi cyclone by the Tamil Nadu Forest Department is set be released in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur. The Nagercoil forest department officials in 2017 saved a two-year-old Cinereous vulture from the Asaripallam town in Nagercoil of Kanyakumari district after it was caught in high wind currents and a change in the wind …

Explained | Saving the vultures of Tamil Nadu
2 years, 2 months ago

Explained | Saving the vultures of Tamil Nadu

The Hindu  

The story so far: On October 19, the Tamil Nadu government formed a committee to set up an institutional framework for the effective conservation of vultures. Though Egyptian vultures are spotted in the Sigur plateau, encompassing the Nilgiris and Erode districts, they are not believed to use the landscape to breed, while researchers still remain unsuccessful in tracing the breeding …

Forest officials propose vulture conservation in Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Bihar
3 years, 4 months ago

Forest officials propose vulture conservation in Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Bihar

Hindustan Times  

Forest officials have sent a proposal to the Bihar government to set up a vulture conservation centre in the Valmiki Tiger Reserve in West Champaran district on the pattern of Uttarakhand’s Corbett National Park with the aim to save the endangered flying scavengers from extinction in the region, forest officials said. We are planning the recovery programme for Himalayan Griffon …

Vulture population on the rise in tiger reserve
3 years, 5 months ago

Vulture population on the rise in tiger reserve

The Hindu  

A recent study of the population of vultures in the Sigur plateau has found that the population of all four resident vulture species have seemingly been on the rise over the past few years. In a study titled Population status and seasonal distribution of vultures in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, published in the Journal of Science and Technology, authors S. Manigandan, …

Captive-bred white-rumped vultures released into the wild in Haryana
4 years ago

Captive-bred white-rumped vultures released into the wild in Haryana

The Hindu  

October 10 was a red-letter day for Gyps vultures. The Haryana State Forest Minister released into the wild eight white-rumped vultures of the genus Gyps as a pilot trial from the Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre in Pinjore, northern Haryana. Chris Bowden of the RSPB and programme manager of the Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction consortium said: “Since the dramatic vulture …

Roosting site with rare vultures found near Madhya Pradesh’s Panna Tiger Reserve
4 years, 7 months ago

Roosting site with rare vultures found near Madhya Pradesh’s Panna Tiger Reserve

Hindustan Times  

While out on lockdown duty in April, a forest officer in Madhya Pradesh’s Panna stumbled upon one of the very few roosting sites for vultures in India. The officer’s rare spotting included 150 to 160 vultures of four species, along with the critically-endangered white-rumped vulture and endangered Egyptian vulture, roosting off the Katni-Panna highway, about 60 km from the Panna …

Conservation challenges of vultures continue in Nilgiris
5 years, 4 months ago

Conservation challenges of vultures continue in Nilgiris

Deccan Chronicle  

OOTY: The first Saturday of September, observed as ‘International Vulture Awareness Day’, reminds mankind about conserving vultures, nature's own disposal squad which help keeps the environs clean. Dr.B.Ramakrishnan, Assistant Professor of Wildlife Biology and Zoology at the Government Arts College here, who is the principal investigator in a 10 year project on vulture biology in the Moyar valley in the …

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