Griffon (Gyps fulvus) Science Article 1 abstract Morning and evening counts undertaken in Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus colonies and communal roosts revealed that their numbers fluctuated by season and time of the day. In the colonies the vultures built up high numbers during the pre-breeding and incubation periods (November-February) with maxima in December-January and dropped […]
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Modelling nesting habitat preferences of Eurasian Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus in eastern Iberian Peninsula
Griffon (Gyps fulvus) Science Article 2 abstract To apply modern habitat modelling techniques using generalized linear models approach to generate not only explicative but also predictive habitat suitability models. Ecological factors that could affect the species? nesting habitat preferences at two spatial scales, one referred to the colony as a sampling unit and another trying […]
Griffon (Gyps fulvus)
[order] ACCIPITRIFORMES | [family] Accipitridae | [latin] Gyps fulvus | [authority] Hablizl, 1783 | [UK] Griffon | [FR] Vautour fauve | [DE] Gansegeier | [ES] Buitre Leonado | [NL] Vale Gier Subspecies Monotypic species Genus Members of the genus Gyps are vultures varying in size from medium to large. They have an elongated head with […]