From: Munir Virani <munir.virani@bigfoot.com>
Date: 2007-03-08 11:05
Subject: Re: Ruppell's Vulture with tag..in Laikipia
Dear all:
 
I am attaching a file that is meant to serve as a poster/awareness document about the Vulture tagging project. The poster is not "official" yet as we are still fine tuning the details.
 
Please let me know if you have any questions.
 
And thanks in advance for any sightings that you may encounter/report.
 
Thanks
 
Munir
Munir Z. Virani, PhD
Coordinator, Asian Vulture Crisis Project
The Peregrine Fund
5668 West Flying Hawk Lane
Boise Idaho 83709
U.S.A
 
Current address (Kenya)
P.O Box 45111
Nairobi, Kenya 00100
Tel: +254-733-748922 (cell)
 
www.peregrinefund.org
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Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:48 AM
Subject: Ruppell's Vulture with tag..in Laikipia

 
Hi Mike,
 
I am copying this email to several researchers working on predators and other species in Laikipia...as well as to Nick Georgiadis at the Mpala Research Center.  They might have some ideas concerning the bird you sighted.
 
It may be that this birds comes from afar.  In that case, Peter Mundy in South Africa might well know something of the project that tagged this vulture.  I do not have Peter's current address....but you can probably get it via Google....or from IUCN/SSC.  I think Peter heads the IUCN/SSC Vulture Specialist Group...and conducts his own studies on vultures....he is Africa's 'vulture fundi'.
 
Cheers, Tom
 

Sorry, I have no info.

I suggest you check with Dieter Oschadleus <dieter@adu.uct.ac.za> (I know some SA ringers have ringed vultures in Kenya but have never sent me their data) and Simon Thomsett <sthomsett@gmail.com>.

I would like to hear the results.

Best wishes,

Graeme

Graeme Backhurst
Organizer
Ringing scheme of eastern Africa
Box 15194
Langata 00509
Nairobi
Kenya
tel: +254 20 891 419

At 10:58 am +0000 05.03.2007, MCalvin wrote:
Hello,

We saw a Ruppell's Vulture today that had a yellow plastic tag.
Location was on Sosian, Laikipia. We have the number and GPS
coordinates. Does anyone know of vulture project in Laikipia?

Mike Calvin

Sosian
Box 6
Rumuruti

--
Best wishes

Graeme Backhurst

Organizer
Ringing scheme of eastern Africa

Box 15194
Langata 00509
Nairobi
Kenya
tel: +254 20 891 419

.
 
Thomas M. Butynski, PhD
Senior Conservation Biologist
Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program
Arcadia University
P. O. Box 149
10400 Nanyuki
KENYA

E-mail: TButynski@aol.com
Mobile phone Bioko: 286-768 (w/in Bioko), +240-286-768 (outside Bioko)
Mobile phone Kenya: 0733-637-525 (w/in Kenya), +254-733-637-525 (outside E. Africa)
Nairobi Fax: +254-2-890615/407 (Attn: Tom Butynski)
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