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Raptors of Nepal is now moving to new project: Study on Bearded Vulture Movement Ecology in the Himalaya

Its a long time without updates. Now I am pleased to inform you about the current project on Bearded Vulture. I am doing a GPS telemetry project on Bearded Vulture in the Himalaya of Nepal. To the best of my knowledge, it is the only project of its kind in Asia to study movement of this charismatic mega avian fauna. In last May we trapped four Bearded Vultures and fitted with WT-200 GPS telemetry, those devices were developed by Korea Institute of Environment Ecology. By this time we already got some preliminary information about the home range area and dispersal timing of the fledgling. Summary of the current result is given below: Summary We studied the home range size of Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus in the Himalaya of central Nepal using GPS telemetry. In May 2016, four birds including one pair of breeding adults and their juvenile and one sub-adult (second calendar year) were trapped and equipped with 72 grams GPS telemetry units (WT -200) developed by Korea Inst