Integrating vulture social behavior into conservation practice

Seasonal grouping dynamics in a territorial vulture: ecological drivers and social consequences

(2020) Thijs van Overveld et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Larger size and older age confer competitive advantage: dominance hierarchy within European vulture guild

(2020) Rubén Moreno-Opo et al.   Scientific Reports

Too much is bad: increasing numbers of livestock and conspecifics reduce body mass in an avian scavenger

(2020) José A. Donázar et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Variation in monthly sizes of home‐ranges of Hooded Vultures Necrosyrtes monachus in western, eastern and southern Africa

(2020) Lindy J. Thompson et al.   IBIS

Epizootics and sanitary regulations drive long-term changes in fledgling body condition of a threatened vulture

(2020) J.A. Donázar et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

What constitutes “social complexity” and “social intelligence” in birds? Lessons from ravens

(2019) Palmyre H. Boucherie et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Using multiple data sources to investigate foraging niche partitioning in sympatric obligate avian scavengers

(2019) Michael E. Byrne et al.   Ecosphere

Animal cultures matter for conservation

(2019) Philippa Brakes et al.   SCIENCE

Scavenging in the Anthropocene: human impact drives vertebrate scavenger species richness at a global scale

(2019) Esther Sebastián‐González et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Towards Quantifying Carrion Biomass in Ecosystems

(2019) Philip S. Barton et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Components and Spatiotemporal Dimension of Carrion Biomass Quantification

(2019) Marcos Moleón et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Evidence of niche differentiation for two sympatric vulture species in the Southeastern United States

(2019) Amanda E. Holland et al.   Movement Ecology

Not in wilderness: African vulture strongholds remain in areas with high human density

(2018) Mohamed Henriques et al.   PLoS One

Supplementary feeding as a source of multiresistant Salmonella in endangered Egyptian vultures

(2018) Guillermo Blanco   Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

More massive but potentially less healthy: black vultures feeding in rubbish dumps differed in clinical and biochemical parameters with wild feeding birds

(2018) Pablo Ignacio Plaza et al.   PeerJ

A three-decade review of telemetry studies on vultures and condors

(2018) Pablo A. E. Alarcón et al.   Movement Ecology

Pigmentation and not only sex and age of individuals affects despotism in the Andean condor

(2018) Nancy V. Marinero et al.   PLoS One

Synergistic effect of land-use and vegetation greenness on vulture nestling body condition in arid ecosystems

(2018) Andrea Santangeli et al.   Scientific Reports

Food predictability and social status drive individual resource specializations in a territorial vulture

(2018) Thijs van Overveld et al.   Scientific Reports

Urban waste disposal explains the distribution of Black Vultures (Coragyps atratus) in an Amazonian metropolis: management implications for birdstrikes and urban planning

(2018) Giase M. de Araujo et al.   PeerJ

Scavenger birds exploiting rubbish dumps: Pathogens at the gates

(2018) Pablo I. Plaza et al.   Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Landfills determine the distribution of an expanding breeding population of the endangered Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus

(2017) Helena Tauler-Ametller et al.   IBIS

Review: Allee effects in social species

(2017) Elena Angulo et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Reintroducing endangered raptors: A case study of supplementary feeding and removal of nestlings from wild populations

(2017) Miguel Ferrer et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus parental care and chick growth rates assessed by camera traps and morphometric measurements

(2017) Machawe I Maphalala et al.   OSTRICH

Ecology and behaviour of Palm-nut Vultures Gypohierax angolensis in the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau

(2017) Camilo Carneiro et al.   OSTRICH

The decline of an urban Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus population in Dakar, Senegal, over 50 years

(2017) Wim C Mullié et al.   OSTRICH

Social foraging and individual consistency in following behaviour: testing the information centre hypothesis in free-ranging vultures

(2017) Roi Harel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Oral mycoses in avian scavengers exposed to antibiotics from livestock farming

(2017) Aida Pitarch et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Sex- and age-dependent patterns of survival and breeding success in a long-lived endangered avian scavenger

(2017) Ana Sanz-Aguilar et al.   Scientific Reports

How are garbage dumps impacting vertebrate demography, health, and conservation?

(2017) Pablo I. Plaza et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Anatomical evidence for scent guided foraging in the turkey vulture

(2017) Nathan P. Grigg et al.   Scientific Reports

Behavioral coexistence and feeding efficiency drive niche partitioning in European avian scavengers

(2016) Rubén Moreno-Opo et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Assessing the effectiveness of intensive conservation actions: Does guarding and feeding increase productivity and survival of Egyptian Vultures in the Balkans?

(2016) Steffen Oppel et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The avian scavenger crisis: Looming extinctions, trophic cascades, and loss of critical ecosystem functions

(2016) Evan R. Buechley et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Long-term data indicates that supplementary food enhances the number of breeding pairs in a Cape Vulture Gyps coprotheres colony

(2016) DANA G. SCHABO et al.   BIRD CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL

Wildlife contamination with fluoroquinolones from livestock: Widespread occurrence of enrofloxacin and marbofloxacin in vultures

(2016) Guillermo Blanco et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Effects of Lead Exposure, Flock Behavior, and Management Actions on the Survival of California Condors (Gymnogyps californianus)

(2016) Victoria J. Bakker et al.   EcoHealth

What's your move? Movement as a link between personality and spatial dynamics in animal populations

(2016) Orr Spiegel et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Toward carrion-free ecosystems?

(2016) Antoni Margalida et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Supplementary feeding and endangered avian scavengers: benefits, caveats, and controversies

(2016) Ainara Cortés-Avizanda et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Cliff characteristics, neighbour requirements and breeding success of the colonial Cape VultureGyps coprotheres

(2016) Morgan B. Pfeiffer et al.   IBIS

Supplementary feeding and young extraction from the wild are not a sensible alternative to captive breeding for reintroducing bearded vulturesGypaetus barbatus

(2016) Antoni Margalida et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Determination of fluoroquinolone antibiotic residues in the plasma of Eurasian griffon vultures ( Gyps fulvus ) in Spain

(2016) Encarna Casas-Díaz et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Ecosystem context and historical contingency in apex predator recoveries

(2016) A. C. Stier et al.   Science Advances

Spatial and temporal movements in Pyrenean bearded vultures (Gypaetus barbatus): Integrating movement ecology into conservation practice

(2016) Antoni Margalida et al.   Scientific Reports

Moving beyond Curve Fitting: Using Complementary Data to Assess Alternative Explanations for Long Movements of Three Vulture Species

(2015) Orr Spiegel et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Manipulating size, amount and appearance of food inputs to optimize supplementary feeding programs for European vultures

(2015) Rubén Moreno-Opo et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Relative contribution of local demography and immigration in the recovery of a geographically-isolated population of the endangered Egyptian vulture

(2015) Nicolas Lieury et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Information use in colonial living

(2015) Julian C. Evans et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Foraging behaviour at carcasses in an Asian vulture assemblage: towards a good restaurant guide

(2015) SABINE M. HILLE et al.   BIRD CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL

Making literature reviews more reliable through application of lessons from systematic reviews

(2015) N.R. Haddaway et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Breeding Ecology and Distribution of White-rumped Vultures (Gyps bengalensis) in Himachal Pradesh, India

(2015) M.L. Thakur   JOURNAL OF RAPTOR RESEARCH

Ivory poachers and poison: drivers of Africa's declining vulture populations

(2015) Darcy Ogada et al.   ORYX

From Individuals to Groups and Back: The Evolutionary Implications of Group Phenotypic Composition

(2015) Damien R. Farine et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

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

(2015) Darcy Ogada et al.   Conservation Letters

Assessing the impact of removal scenarios on population viability of a threatened, long-lived avian scavenger

(2015) Antoni Margalida et al.   Scientific Reports

Optimization of supplementary feeding programs for European vultures depends on environmental and management factors

(2015) Rubén Moreno-Opo et al.   Ecosphere

Supplanting ecosystem services provided by scavengers raises greenhouse gas emissions

(2015) Zebensui Morales-Reyes et al.   Scientific Reports

Carrion ecology modelling for vulture conservation: are vulture restaurants needed to sustain the densest breeding population of the African white-backed vulture?

(2014) A. Kane et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Inter-specific interactions linking predation and scavenging in terrestrial vertebrate assemblages

(2014) Marcos Moleón et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Humans and Scavengers: The Evolution of Interactions and Ecosystem Services

(2014) Marcos Moleón et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Bird sky networks: How do avian scavengers use social information to find carrion?

(2014) Ainara Cortés-Avizanda et al.   ECOLOGY

Breeding biology of the White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis in Kruger National Park, South Africa

(2014) Campbell Murn et al.   OSTRICH

One Health approach to use of veterinary pharmaceuticals

(2014) A. Margalida et al.   SCIENCE

Factors influencing the selection of communal roost sites by the Black Vulture Coragyps atratus (Aves: Cathartidae) in an urban area in Central Amazon

(2014) Weber G. Novaes et al.   Zoologia

Factors Influencing Foraging Search Efficiency: Why Do Scarce Lappet-Faced Vultures Outperform Ubiquitous White-Backed Vultures?

(2013) Orr Spiegel et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Ecological and evolutionary implications of food subsidies from humans

(2013) Daniel Oro et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Variability in size of groups in communal roosts: influence of age-class, abundance of individuals and roosting site

(2013) Sergio A. Lambertucci   EMU

Turkey Vulture Breeding Behavior Studied with Trail Cameras

(2013) Chloë E. Rollack et al.   JOURNAL OF RAPTOR RESEARCH

Cliffs Used as Communal Roosts by Andean Condors Protect the Birds from Weather and Predators

(2013) Sergio A. Lambertucci et al.   PLoS One

Need and Seek for Dietary Micronutrients: Endogenous Regulation, External Signalling and Food Sources of Carotenoids in New World Vultures

(2013) Guillermo Blanco et al.   PLoS One

Who Are We Feeding? Asymmetric Individual Use of Surplus Food Resources in an Insular Population of the Endangered Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus

(2013) Marie-Sophie García-Heras et al.   PLoS One

Alternative strategies in avian scavengers: how subordinate species foil the despotic distribution

(2012) Corinne J. Kendall   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Intra-specific competition in foraging Griffon VulturesGyps fulvus: 2. The influence of supplementary feeding management

(2012) Olivier Duriez et al.   BIRD STUDY

Intra-specific competition in foraging Griffon VulturesGyps fulvus: 1. Dynamics of group feeding

(2012) Michela Bosè et al.   BIRD STUDY

Mechanisms of Coexistence in Vultures: Understanding the Patterns of Vulture Abundance at Carcasses in Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

(2012)   CONDOR

Resource unpredictability promotes species diversity and coexistence in an avian scavenger guild: a field experiment

(2012) A. Cortés-Avizanda et al.   ECOLOGY

First Polygynous Trio of Bearded Vultures (Gypaetusbarbatus)

(2012) Paolo Fasce et al.   JOURNAL OF RAPTOR RESEARCH

Reinventing mutualism between humans and wild fauna: insights from vultures as ecosystem services providers

(2012) Laura Gangoso et al.   Conservation Letters

Modelling the effects of sanitary policies on European vulture conservation

(2012) Antoni Margalida et al.   Scientific Reports

Dropping dead: causes and consequences of vulture population declines worldwide

(2011) Darcy L. Ogada et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Integrating animal behavior and conservation biology: a conceptual framework

(2011) O. Berger-Tal et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Long-term relationship between diet breadth and breeding success in a declining population of Egyptian VulturesNeophron percnopterus

(2011) ANTONI MARGALIDA et al.   IBIS

The importance of social information in breeding site selection increases with population size in the Eurasian Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus

(2011) PATRICIA MATEO-TOMÁS et al.   IBIS

Can Wild Ungulate Carcasses Provide Enough Biomass to Maintain Avian Scavenger Populations? An Empirical Assessment Using a Bio-Inspired Computational Model

(2011) Antoni Margalida et al.   PLoS One

Spatial Heterogeneity in Resource Distribution Promotes Facultative Sociality in Two Trans-Saharan Migratory Birds

(2011) Ainara Cortés-Avizanda et al.   PLoS One

The Evolutionary Pathway to Obligate Scavenging in Gyps Vultures

(2011) Brian J. Dermody et al.   PLoS One

Winners and losers in human-made habitats: interspecific competition outcomes in two Neotropical vultures

(2010) M. Carrete et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Status of the California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) and Efforts to Achieve Its Recovery

(2010) Jeffrey R. Walters et al.   AUK

Impact of food predictability on social facilitation by foraging scavengers

(2010) Chloé Deygout et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Managing supplementary feeding for avian scavengers: Guidelines for optimal design using ecological criteria

(2010) Ainara Cortés-Avizanda et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Associations of Avian Facial Flushing and Skin Colouration with Agonistic Interaction Outcomes

(2010) Andrew J. Bamford et al.   ETHOLOGY

Supplementary feeding during the chick-rearing period is ineffective in increasing the breeding success in the bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus)

(2010) Antoni Margalida   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Dietary shifts in two vultures after the demise of supplementary feeding stations: consequences of the EU sanitary legislation

(2010) José A. Donázar et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Competition for food between Neotropical vultures in forest

(2010) DAVID C. HOUSTON   IBIS

Sanitary versus environmental policies: fitting together two pieces of the puzzle of European vulture conservation

(2010) Antoni Margalida et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Size and spatio-temporal variations of the Andean condor Vultur gryphus population in north-west Patagonia, Argentina: communal roosts and conservation

(2010) Sergio A. Lambertucci   ORYX

Spatial and temporal patterns in the diet of the Andean condor: ecological replacement of native fauna by exotic species

(2009) S. A. Lambertucci et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Social network theory: new insights and issues for behavioral ecologists

(2009) Andrew Sih et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

The role of traditional farming practices in ecosystem conservation: The case of transhumance and vultures

(2009) Pedro P. Olea et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Carrion decomposition and nutrient cycling in a semiarid shrub–steppe ecosystem

(2009) Robert R. Parmenter et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Agonistic Behaviour and Sexual Conflict in Atypical Reproductive Groups: The Case of Bearded VultureGypaetus barbatusPolyandrous Trios

(2009) Joan Bertran et al.   ETHOLOGY

Poison-related mortality effects in the endangered Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus) population in Spain

(2009) Mauro Hernández et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Factors influencing perch selection by communally roosting Turkey Vultures

(2009) Betsy A. Evans et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Beyond the information centre hypothesis: communal roosting for information on food, predators, travel companions and mates?

(2009) Allert I. Bijleveld et al.   OIKOS

Too Sanitary for Vultures

(2009) J. A. Donazar et al.   SCIENCE

The effect of social facilitation on foraging success in vultures: a modelling study

(2008) A. L. Jackson et al.   Biology Letters

Counting the cost of vulture decline—An appraisal of the human health and other benefits of vultures in India

(2008) Anil Markandya et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

The role of Greater Yellow-headed Vultures Cathartes melambrotus as scavengers in neotropical forest

(2008) LUIS G. GOMEZ et al.   IBIS

Breeding behaviour of the Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus: minimal sexual differences in parental activities

(2008) ANTONI MARGALIDA et al.   IBIS

THE IMPORTANCE OF CERTAIN ASSEMBLAGES OF BIRDS AS “INFORMATION-CENTRES” FOR FOOD-FINDING

(2008) P. Ward et al.   IBIS

When to end releases in reintroduction programmes: demographic rates and population viability analysis of bearded vultures in the Alps

(2008) Michael Schaub et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Use of a communal roost by Turkey Vultures in northeastern Iowa

(2008) Kathlyn J. McVey et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Use of communal roosts by Andean Condors in northwest Patagonia, Argentina

(2008) Sergio A. Lambertucci et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Breeding behavior of a pair of free-living Andean Condors

(2008) Sergio A. Lambertucci et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Testing the Goodness of Supplementary Feeding to Enhance Population Viability in an Endangered Vulture

(2008) Daniel Oro et al.   PLoS One

The effects of rearing method on social behaviors of mentored, captive-reared juvenile California condors

(2007) Amy C. Utt et al.   ZOO BIOLOGY