ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We thank all the collaborators involved in the field work and the vulture trapping and tagging, specially to J.L. Rivas, J. Sanz, A. Lekuona, J.M. Fernández, J. Ugarte, M. Olano, J.C. Albero, O. Frías, J.A. Lopez-Septiem, G. Gómez-López, O Ceballos, E. Ursua, S. Gonzalez, and Grup d’Anellament de Calldetenes-Osona. We also thank to WWF Spain for facilitating the work in the Fauna Refuge of the Riaza Gorges, and the staff and rangers of the Natural Parks of Sierra de Cazorla Segura y las Villas, and Bardenas Reales. We also thank to the regional government of Castilla y León, Junta de Andalucia, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Generalitat de Catalunya, Gobierno de Aragón, SARGA and Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa. This research was funded by Comunidad de Bardenas Reales de Navarra, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and EU/FEDER (PID2020-113808RA-I00, PID2019-109685GB-I00, RTI2018-099609-B-C22, CGL2012-32544, CGL2015-66966-C2-1-2-R and CGL2015-66966-C2-1-R2); Junta de Andalucía (RNM-1925 and P18-RT-1321); FEDER_2021.1524 and the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and ERDF (RTI2018-099609-B-C21, TRASCAR); and Poctefa Interreg Project (EFA 089/15 Ecogyp). Part of this work was funded by Ecotone telemetry (Poland). J.M.P.G. was supported by a Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities postdoctoral contract (IJC-2019-038968). E.A. was supported by the Generalitat Valenciana and the European Social Fund (APOSTD/2021). ACA was supported by two Postdoc Contracts: I + D + I Retos E-41-202_0456599 and EMERGIA Program2021_1073, both from Junta de Andalucía. We want to also than Louis W. Phipps for the language revision of the manuscript.