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TRACKING VULTURES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
VULPRO TRACKING VULTURES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
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BACKGROUND Established in 2007
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ACTIVITIES Rehabilitation
Captive breeding for supplementation and reintroduction Cliff and tree nesting monitoring and surveys Threat mitigation Education and awareness Workshops and training Research NSAID Tracking Tagging
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TRACKING African White-backed Vultures (15) Cape Vultures (68)
Hooded Vultures (5) Lappet-faced Vultures (2) Martial Eagle (1) Secretary bird (1)
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WILDLIFE TRACKING 3 data points per day Text messages for each reading
240 gram device GSM/GPS “Yrless” website portal Battery powered Lasted up to max. 10 months
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CELLULAR TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
Third generation devices 1 data point every minute Once a day download 75 grams GSM/GPS Up to 5 years lifespan
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DIGITAL TELEMETRY Digital telemetry from Germany
GSM/GPS: Solar with Lithium battery 4 data points per day, but 15min interval stored for UHF downloads Unique 3D-accelerometer with raw data recording i.e behaviour of the bird UHF Pinger (VHF tracking equivalent) as well as a high-speed radio-link for wireless on-site data download. 2 year lifespan
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ECOTONE GSM/GPS (SMS) Solar with Lithium Battery
1 data point every 30 minutes downloaded every 2 hours 3 Year lifespan NB:- The model that was used does not Log Altitude, Speed and Heading!!!!
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MICROWAVE TELEMETRY Backpack 70 grams Wing mount 50 grams
Downloads every second day Data point every 2 hours Mortality feature Additional VHF transmitter ARGOS PTT, 3 Year lifespan
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MAX PLANCK PROTOTYPE www.movebank.org Made in Germany 15 grams GSM/GPS
Solar 1 fix every 20 / 30 MINUTES Lifespan unknown
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Released February 2015 and still transmitting
CV 017: 7 countries, 21 months Released February 2015 and still transmitting
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CV VIRTRYX: WILD CAUGHT ON 23 MARCH 2012 AT VULPRO – 23 July 2013
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CV 025: EASTERN CAPE REHABILITATED AND RELEASED
14/03/2015 – 07/07/2015
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CV 129: EASTERN CAPE REHABILITATED AND RELEASED
24/01/2016 – continuing
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AWB Vulture: rehabilitated and released: 10 April – 10 November 2015
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LFV: wild caught and tracked from 2 April – 23 March 2016
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AWBV rehabilitated at Victoria Falls and released
AWBV rehabilitated at Victoria Falls and released. Travelled straight to Kasane and then back to Zimbabwe
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RESULTS / PUBLICATIONS
POSTERS Wolter K., Botha A, Von’t Foort W and Bartels P Monitoring the success of released rehabilitated vultures. Poster. South African Wildlife Management Association Symposium. EWT Birds of Prey Working Group Annual General Meeting, uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa. Wolter K, Naidoo V, Whittington-Jones C and Bartels P Does the presence of vulture restaurants influence the movement of Cape Vultures (Gyps coprotheres) in the Magaliesberg? Poster. Southern African Wildlife Management Association conference, uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa. PUBLICATIONS Protocol on correct handling, capture and fitting of devices and patagial (wing) tags Monadjem A, Kane A, Wolter K, Neser W, Kotze A, Naidoo V. submitted manuscript. Movements of foraging Cape Vultures in relation to the location of supplementary feeding points. Monadjem A, Wolter K, Neser W and Kane A Effects of rehabilitation on survival rate of endangered Cape Vultures. Animal Conservation. 17: 52–60. Phipps WL, Willis SG, Wolter K, Naidoo V. Foraging ranges of immature African White-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) and their use of protected areas in southern Africa PLOS ONE. 8(1): e52813. Phipps WL, Wolter K, Michael DM, MacTavish ML and Yarnell WR. Do power lines and protected areas present a catch-22 situation for Cape Vultures (Gyps coprotheres)? PLOS ONE. 8(10): e76794. Naidoo V, Wolter K, Espie I, Kotze A. Vulture rescue and rehabilitation in South Africa: an urban perspective Journal of South African Veterinary Association. 82: 24–31. Bartels P, Van’t Fort W and Wolter K Monitoring the success of released rehabilitated vultures. Vulture News. 57:
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FUTURE PUBLCATIONS AND RESEARCH
Identify new roosts, breeding sites etc as shown by tracking data – ongoing Busy finalising CV 017 foraging paper PhD student looking at vulture feeding sites in southern Africa in relation to vulture movements and their nutritional requirements and comparing wild foraging to vulture restaurant foraging Wind farm EIA studies and guidelines Looking at land use preferences with regards to vultures foraging ranges and trying to understand choice selection of hotspot sites Looking at key sites for threat mitigation and educational programmes based on hotspot areas GAPS Data storage Limited time to analyse and write papers Collaboration of data to look at CVs holitically
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