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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 373

vultures

An aging vulture wearing a GPS radio transmitter. (Tovale Solomon)
September 3, 2024, 11:25 am
While young vultures gad about, older ones prefer to stay home – study
Tel Aviv University research shows that aging vultures become less sociable
By Sue Surkes
The body of a griffon vulture in its cliffside nest in the Judean Desert in southern Israel March 2024. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
March 10, 2024, 6:07 pm
Three endangered griffon vultures found dead in southern Israel, poison suspected
Parents and chick thought to have eaten carcass treated with anti-inflammatory drug; fourth bird from struggling population dies after hitting electric line
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative photo of a griffon vulture (Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0/ Pierre Dalous)
March 29, 2023, 9:20 pm
Nature authority presses for millions more to protect threatened vultures
Environment Ministry asked to fund NIS 20 million yearly to remove poison-laced carcasses put out by farmers and accidentally consumed by the birds
By Sue Surkes
The carcass of a griffon vulture found in southern Israel, on October 14, 2022. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
October 14, 2022, 7:19 pm
Three endangered vultures found dead in southern Israel after suspected poisoning
Israel Nature and Parks Authority opens probe
By Sue Surkes and ToI Staff
A griffon vulture is released into the wild in the Negev highlands in southern Israel, after being marked and fitted with a radio transmitter. (Yuval Dax, INPA)
October 4, 2022, 12:11 pm
Conservationists release 64 vultures equipped with radio transmitters
Israel Nature and Parks Authority hopes Jewish new year will be better than last, when 12 of the endangered birds were poisoned
By Sue Surkes
One of nine dead vultures shown next to the carcass of a goat in the Judean Desert in what the Israel Nature and Parks Authority suspects is a malicious poisoning event, October 24, 2021. (Eyal Ben Giat, INPA)
December 22, 2021, 7:11 pm
MKs advance bill to ease prosecution, raise punishment for wildlife poisoning
Amendment to Wildlife Act, introduced by Meretz’s Mossi Raz and passed in preliminary Knesset reading, seeks to protect vultures, other animals from poisoning by farmers
By Sue Surkes
A feral dog. (Ohad Yahalomi, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
December 9, 2021, 3:05 pm
Feral dog explosion threatens survival of endangered vultures – Nature Authority
Chief scientist calls for cutting food waste, regulating wild dog numbers, and banning poisons that also kill vultures
By Sue Surkes
Scren capture from video of a dead griffon vulture found in the Judean Desert, October 27, 2021. (Srugim)
October 27, 2021, 4:52 pm
Three more dead vultures found in Judean Desert, bringing poisoning toll to 12
Nature and Parks Authority says two dead dogs also discovered; one of the birds had been fitted with a radio transmitter; all corpses to be examined
By Sue Surkes
One of nine dead vultures shown next to the carcass of a goat in the Judean Desert in what the Israel Nature and Parks Authority suspects is a malicious poisoning event, October 24, 2021. (Eyal Ben Giat, INPA)
October 24, 2021, 6:09 pm
9 vultures found dead, in another blow to endangered population
Nature and Parks Authority suspects malicious poisoning after corpses located next to dead goat in Judean Desert
By Sue Surkes
A lappet-faced vulture visits the Hai Bar Nature Reserve at Yotvata in southern Israel, April 29 2021. (Noam Weiss/ International Birding and Research Center, Eilat)
May 26, 2021, 8:43 pm
Vulture thought extinct from Israel for 30 years spotted twice in a month
Israel Nature and Parks Authority hopes sightings of subspecies of ecologically important lappet-faced vulture signal its return
By Sue Surkes
A griffon vulture. (Yosef Avgana, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
August 11, 2020, 5:32 pm
Israel’s griffon vulture population reaches eight-year high
Just over a year after eight of the birds were poisoned, the population still remains endangered and concentrated in just two areas of country, with natural reproduction slow
By Sue Surkes
Long-legged buzzard seen via livecam set up by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and the Society for the Protection of Nature. (Screenshot)
February 19, 2020, 2:07 pm
Cameras allow peeping from afar at private lives of predatory birds
For fifth year, Raptor Nestcam unobtrusively records lives of several raptor species, starting with long-legged buzzards and griffon vultures
By Sue Surkes
An ibex chats up a Tristram’s grackle at the Ein Gedi nature reserve .(Shmuel Bar-Am)
December 19, 2019, 5:00 pm
In 50-year record, 20 new nature reserves, national parks designated in 2019
But in year’s end roundup report, Israel Nature and Parks Authority director says lack of functioning government leaves funding for 2020 unclear, harms ability to plan
By Sue Surkes
An Egyptian vulture in flight over the Gamla nature reserve on the Israeli Golan, May 2013. (Wikipedia/Вых Пыхманн/CC BY-SA)
May 22, 2019, 12:32 pm
Egyptian vultures return to Carmel mountains after 60-year absence
Rare nest found perched on cliff face at Hai Bar Nature Reserve, just two weeks after griffon vulture population on Golan Heights was decimated in poisoning incident
By ToI Staff
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