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GRIFFON VULTURE (Gyps fulvus), Campanarios de Azaba Biological Reserve, Salamanca, Castilla y Leon, Spain, Europe
Tarpan horses in the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria
Fallow deer in the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria
Antipoison Dog Unit: Bars
Red deer in the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria
Red deer in the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria
Antipoison Dog Unit: Nikolay Terziev and his four-legged team member Bars
Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓNV ulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
Vulture watching hide, Madzharovo, Eastern Rhodope mountains, Bulgaria
Arda river bend, Madzharovo, Eastern Rhodope mountains, Bulgaria
Flight shots over the Arda river canyon, Madzharovo, Eastern Rhodope mountains, Bulgaria
Flight shots over the Arda river canyon, Madzharovo, Eastern Rhodope mountains, Bulgaria
Flight shots over the Arda river canyon, Madzharovo, Eastern Rhodope mountains, Bulgaria
Birdwatching guide and nature photographer Mladen Vasilev, Eastern Rhodope mountains, Bulgaria
Woodcock orchid, Ophrys cornuta/scolopax, with mating Black veined white butterflies, Aporia crataegi, on it, Bela Reka, Eastern Rhodope mountains, Bulgaria
Wild, native original Fallow deer, Dama dama, Studen Kladenets reserve, Eastern Rhodope mountains, Bulgaria
View from the Studen Kladenets hunting reserve, Eastern Rhodope mountains, Bulgaria
Spruce forest in Zabardo, Western Rhodope mountains, Bulgaria
