Study

Supplemental feeding regimes for Egyptian vultures in the Negev Desert, Israel

  • Published source details Meretsky V.J. & Mannan R.W. (1999) Supplemental feeding regimes for Egyptian vultures in the Negev Desert, Israel. Journal of Wildlife Management, 63, 107-115.

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This study is summarised as evidence for the following.

Action Category

Provide supplementary food for vultures to increase reproductive success

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Bird Conservation

Provide supplementary food for vultures to increase adult survival

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Bird Conservation
  1. Provide supplementary food for vultures to increase reproductive success

    A study in the Negev Desert, Israel, in April-August of 1989 and 1990 (Meretsky & Mannan 1999) found that a large (20-350 kg), irregularly supplied (twice a month) feeding station did not provided sufficient regular food for Egyptian vultures Neophron percnopterus feeding young, whereas a feeding station supplied daily with 5-10 kg of chicken did. This study is discussed in more detail in ‘Provide supplementary food to increase reproductive success’.

     

  2. Provide supplementary food for vultures to increase adult survival

    A study in the Negev Desert, Israel, in April-August of 1989 and 1990 (Meretsky & Mannan 1999) found that adult Egyptian vultures Neophron percnopterus were able to dominate a feeding station supplied daily with 5-10 kg of chicken, but not a station supplied approximately twice a month with large amounts (20-350 kg) of meat. Peak numbers of vultures were higher at the irregularly-stocked station (30-40 vultures present at once vs. 20-30) but they were sometimes excluded by mammals (e.g. striped hyaena Hyaena hyaena) or Eurasian griffon vultures Gypus fulvus, which did not occur at the regularly-stocked station.

     

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