Subject: [Oversea] Slender-billed Vulture nests found in Cambodia: a first for South-East Asia [Print This Page] Author: HKBWS WY Time: 16/02/2007 12:27 Subject: Slender-billed Vulture nests found in Cambodia: a first for South-East Asia
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Slender-billed Vulture nests found in Cambodia: a first for South-East Asia
15-02-2007
The discovery of South-East Asia’s only known Slender-billed Vulture Gyps tenuirostris breeding colony has highlighted further Cambodia’s role as a stronghold for Asia’s plummeting vulture populations.
Cambodian conservationists found five nests in the Seasan Important Bird Area (IBA) whilst undertaking surveys of birds near the Mekong river in Cambodia’s Stung Treng Province.
