{"id":1034,"date":"2020-02-12T01:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifewithvultures.eu\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2025-04-14T08:46:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T05:46:18","slug":"title-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifewithvultures.eu\/el\/title-1\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0397 \u03c0\u03c1\u03ce\u03c4\u03b7 \u03b1\u03c0\u03bf\u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03ae \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u0393\u03cd\u03c0\u03b1 \u03b3\u03b9\u03b1 \u03c4\u03b7 \u03b4\u03b5\u03ba\u03b1\u03b5\u03c4\u03af\u03b1 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 2020 \u03c5\u03c0\u03cc\u03c3\u03c7\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 \u03ad\u03bd\u03b1 \u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1\u03c1\u03c0\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc \u03bc\u03ad\u03bb\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Every year, BirdLife Cyprus coordinates two large-scale Griffon Vulture surveys, one in winter and one in late spring, aiming to check on any nesting activity and estimate the current population size of the species, by carrying out simultaneous counts across the entire feeding range of the vultures and also their known breeding and roosting cliffs. On Friday 24 January, with the support of the Game and Fauna Service, the SBA Environment Department and the Department of Forests, watchers were stationed at 9 key look-out points and camera-traps were set up at one of the vulture supplementary feeding stations, to complete the first Griffon Vulture census of the decade and the first such count since the launch of the <\/span>LIFE with Vultures<\/a> project. <\/span>
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The action-packed day started off bright and early with high winds and powerful gusts \u2013 perfect flying conditions for the vultures. First thing in the morning, thirteen vultures were seen being active and stretching their wings around Episkopi Cliffs, before gradually breaking up into smaller groups and making their way inland.\"Shape\"<\/p>\n

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One of the highlights of the survey was when a\u00a0wing-tagged female (brought\u00a0from Crete and released in Cyprus\u00a0in [add year if known]\u00a0to reinforce the Cyprus Griffon Vulture population\u00a0as part of\u00a0Project GYPAS<\/a>)\u00a0was seen copulating\u00a0with an untagged (Cypriot-born) male\u00a0at a\u00a0usual nesting site on\u00a0Episkopi\u00a0cliffs. At the same time a second couple of tagged vultures were tending their newly-built nest and later\u00a0on,\u00a0the second pair was also observed copulating. Interestingly, one of these birds was observed visiting the nest of the Cypro-Cretan pair while it was unattended and stealing nesting material. Nest-building is clearly serious business, worth the risk of falling out with your neighbours.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Further inland, a group of\u00a09 vultures including\u00a0<\/span>Ikaros<\/a>, a young vulture recently fitted with a GPS transmitter as part of the LIFE with Vultures project, were seen feeding on a carcass of a goat, demonstrating the value of this species as nature\u2019s clean-up crew.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the early afternoon, the vultures began returning to their roosting cliffs. At this point,\u00a0<\/span>Nepheli<\/a>, a young vulture rescued last year and fitted with a GPS transmitter, who spent\u00a0the day\u00a0wandering\u00a0around the usual vulture haunts, returned to overnight at\u00a0Episkopi\u00a0Cliffs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Overall, the estimated size of the Cyprus Griffon population remains stable at around 20 individuals, with three territorial pairs identified. We will continue to keep an eye on the nests and we are hopeful that with the LIFE with Vultures project kicking into gear, the 2020 winter census marks the start of a bright new future for the Griffon Vultures of Cyprus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Many thanks go to\u00a0the Vulture Conservation Foundation\u00a0and\u00a0Terra\u00a0Cypria\u00a0for their help on the day as well as\u00a0our team of dedicated volunteers for helping make the annual Griffon Vulture censuses possible!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every year, BirdLife Cyprus coordinates two large-scale Griffon Vulture surveys, one in winter and one in late spring, aiming to check on any nesting activity and estimate the current population size of the species, by carrying out simultaneous counts across the entire feeding range of the vultures and also their known breeding and roosting cliffs. On Friday 24 January, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"enabled","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithvultures.eu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithvultures.eu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithvultures.eu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithvultures.eu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithvultures.eu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithvultures.eu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithvultures.eu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithvultures.eu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithvultures.eu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithvultures.eu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithvultures.eu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}