Fieldwork for Summer 2022
We have great news this year. OSME and OBC have both agreed to fund the Central Asian Vulture Project again this year. This is on top of the support from the Hawk Conservancy, UK. The…
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Movement Update 23 July 2022
Since the last update in March, one of our three vultures has moved, while two have remained on their wintering grounds. First, migratory EVs often remain on their wintering ground in their first spring, possibly…
Nature’s a Hoot Podcast
This week Dr Robert J Burnside was interviewed on the Hawk Conservancy Trust’s Nature’s a Hoot Podcast. He talks to Hannah and Tom about the Vulture project and the movements of the birds. You can…
Movement Update 2 March 2022
All three Vultures continue to remain sedentary since the beginning of 2022. I think the will probably remain in their wintering grounds this year and perhaps only return to Uzbekistan next year. Arys continues to…
Egyptian Vulture work featured in the Times of India!
On the 18th January 2022, the results of our work where written up in the Times of India by Vikram Jit Singh. He gave a thorough account of the adventures of Arys and Anya as…
Anna Ten from the Vulture team presents at the OSME winter meeting
The Ornithological Society of the Middle East (OSME), who are supporters of our project, held their annual winter meeting online on 29th January 2022. They had 170 people register for the free talks, one of…
Migration routes of Egyptian Vultures in Central Asia described for the first time
We are very happy to be able to share the results of our satellite tracking for the first time. The three Egyptian Vultures, Anya, Arys and Timur have undergone their first autumn migrations. All three…
Meeting with WWF Pakistan
Today the Central Asian Vulture project team had an online meeting with Muhammad Jamshed Iqbal Chaudhry, the Sr. Manager, Research & Conservation for WWF-Pakistan, and Dr Campbell Murn, Head of Conservation and Research at the…
EV project presents at the 10th annual general meeting of SAVE
On the 2nd December 2021, Anna Ten from our team presented the first results from our satellite tagging to the members of SAVE (Saving Asias Vultures from Extinction) at their Annual General meeting. SAVE is…
EV project featured in Uzbekistan National Press
On the 14th September, the longest running newpaper in Uzbekistan, “Eastern Truth”, featured a story on the Egyptian Vulture project in their Green Planet Section with a picture of Vladimir and Anya the vulture! It’s…