{"id":14918,"date":"2020-12-14T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4vultures.org\/?p=14918"},"modified":"2025-05-05T15:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T12:47:06","slug":"the-eighth-edition-of-la-plume-du-life-the-life-gypconnects-newsletter-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/es\/blog\/the-eighth-edition-of-la-plume-du-life-the-life-gypconnects-newsletter-released\/","title":{"rendered":"The eighth edition of La Plume du Life, the LIFE GYPCONNECT’s newsletter, released"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Young Bearded Vulture in flight (c) Franziska Loercher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There is only one year remaining until the end of LIFE GYPCONNECT<\/a>, and so far, the project has achieved a lot in favour of the Bearded Vulture. In the latest edition of the project’s newsletter ‘La Plume due Life’, Bearded Vulture experts discuss captive breeding, releases, breeding results in the wild, and many other interesting topics relating to the species and its conservation in the project area and beyond. In this blog post, we share the original newsletter (in French) and summarize some of the highlights in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bearded Vulture captive breeding and releases<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

La Bearded Vulture Captive Breeding Network<\/a>, coordinated by the Vulture Conservation Foundation on behalf of EAZA’s EEP, faced the biggest crisis since the creation of this programme in 1978 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, thanks to the incredible efforts of different centres and zoos of the network, it was possible to implement the emergency protocols developed by the VCF<\/a> and save the Bearded Vulture chicks that hatched during the 2019\/20 breeding season!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were two protocols established for different circumstances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. The first protocol requires building a box inside the nest when adoption by biological parents is not possible because the parents stopped incubating or adoption failed. This allows chicks to have direct visual contact with their parents, but no physical contact, as this can prove to be fatal \u2013 sometimes parents injure or kill their offspring if they stop breeding for one reason or the other.<\/li>
  2. The second protocol entails a double adoption and occurs when there is a double-clutch. Bearded Vulture nestlings cannot be in the same nest due to an evolutionary behaviour called ‘cainism’ where the chicks fight aggressively, leading to the death of the youngest sibling. To solve this, the facilities build two nests with a wooden plank separating the chicks.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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