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"Europe is home to four vulture species – the griffon, cinereous (black),
Egyptian, and bearded vulture. Of these, the bearded vulture is the rarest.
Over the last two centuries the European population of the species has declined
sharply, mainly due to deliberate persecution, poisoning, and more recently
collisions with power lines and a decreasing availability of food. By the early
20th century, it had disappeared from almost all areas where it was once
present.
Since the late 1970s, however, wide-ranging conservation efforts have seen
Europe’s bearded vultures make a remarkable comeback. Birds have been
reintroduced to a growing number of European mountain ranges, initially in the
Alps, and more recently in Andalucia and Picos de Europa in Spain, and the
Grands Causses (Massif Central) and Dauphiné Alps in southeast France. The
current European population of the species is estimated to be between 580 to
790 pairs, distributed between the Pyrenees, reintroduced populations in the
Alps and the mountains of Andalucia, and isolated populations in Crete and
Corsica."
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