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The capture and attachment of satellite- and radio-telemetry equipment on vultures in the Waterberg area : Rare and Endangered Species Trust / Maria Diekmann

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Lanioturdus. 50-52 p. table ; Vol.38 No.3&4Publication details: Windhoek : Typoprint, 2005Description: 3 pages : table; 21 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • PER 527 Conservation
Summary: The author has introduced the R ES T feeding restaurant which proved that vultures only return between once a month and three times a year. In order to monitor movements of vultures to date 5 vultures have been fitted with transmitters and are observed by satellite telemetry. The breeding population of Cape Griffon vultures, Gyps coprotheres, on the Waterberg Plateau has declidut from an estimated 500 in 1939 to only 11 birds in 2004. To date 778 birds of four species have been ringed. Satellite collors were fitted to monitor the movements of the vultures. Skybanker made already headlines in the news media
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The author has introduced the R ES T feeding restaurant which proved that vultures only return between once a month and three times a year. In order to monitor movements of vultures to date 5 vultures have been fitted with transmitters and are observed by satellite telemetry. The breeding population of Cape Griffon vultures, Gyps coprotheres, on the Waterberg Plateau has declidut from an estimated 500 in 1939 to only 11 birds in 2004. To date 778 birds of four species have been ringed. Satellite collors were fitted to monitor the movements of the vultures. Skybanker made already headlines in the news media

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