{"id":24271,"date":"2022-06-14T14:12:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T11:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/?p=24271"},"modified":"2025-05-05T15:46:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T12:46:55","slug":"bearded-vulture-eglazine-returns-to-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/es\/blog\/bearded-vulture-eglazine-returns-to-the-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Bearded Vulture Eglazine returns to the Netherlands \u2013 a first for the species"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bearded Vulture Eglazine photographed in the Netherlands during her first visit \u00a9 Neil Kampherbeek<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Bearded Vulture Eglazine returned to the Netherlands! Even though wandering is normal for young individuals of this species, there are no other records of a Bearded Vulture making such a journey to northwestern Europe twice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hatched in captivity, released to the wild<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Eglazine hatched in Parco Natura Viva<\/a> back in March 2020 within the Bearded Vulture Captive Breeding Network<\/a>, coordinated by the Vulture Conservation Foundation (VCF)<\/a> on behalf of EAZA\u2019s EEP<\/a>. Around three months after hatching, the LIFE GypConnect<\/a> project (2015-2022) received the female vulture and an LPO<\/a> team at the Grands Causses’ technical site fitted her with identification rings and a GPS transmitter for monitoring purposes. They proceeded to release Eglazine in the Grands Causses<\/a> using the hacking method, placing her into an artificial nest located at a suitable habitat. This method replicates the species’ natural way of fledging, allowing young and captive-bred Bearded Vultures to safely interact with each other and surrounding wildlife while spending a few weeks acclimatizing to their new environment in preparation for their first flight into the wild. Her release strengthened the project’s ultimate and long-term objective to establish a Bearded Vulture breeding population in the Massif Central and the Pre-Alps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eglazine’s first excursion to the north<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

After exploring the Grands Causses for about nine months, the young vulture began her wandering adventure on 19 April 2021<\/a>. She flew over downtown Paris, eventually reached the English Channel and continued along the North Sea coast. She entered Belgium on 30 April and crossed the country in a single day to land in the Netherlands. Since then, she widely toured the country and also crossed over to Germany in Mid-May. By June, she made her way back to the Netherlands, arriving in the National Park Hoge Veluwe. She remained there until 8 October, when she started making her way south<\/a>, reaching Belgium the same day and covering a distance of 150 km in three hours. On 10 October, she finally arrived in France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bearded Vulture Eglazine makes her way back to the Netherlands<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Maps shows the GPS movements of the Bearded Vulture Eglazine travelling back to the Netherlands \u00a9 VCF<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Eglazine spent the winter back ‘home’ in the Grands Causses until she embarked on a new and surprising journey. On 27 April, the vulture left for the north once again, roughly following the same route as her return journey in autumn 2021. Eglazine travelled through Clermong-Ferrand, the Morvan, Auxerre, Troyes, and crossed the Belgian border on 2 May, near Charleroi. From there, she went northwest close to Bruges but made a sharp turn to the east to spend the night near Mechelen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 3 May, she crossed the Dutch border near Hoge Mierde and roosted on the Oirschotse heath. The next day, she came in a straight line in the direction of the Lemelerberg (where she spent also several weeks in 2021), but took a sharp turn to go to the Veluwe. There she spent the night in a familiar place, where she had slept many times before over the last year. It has been over a month, and Eglazine is still in Veluwe and is doing well. She often undertakes small trips within the area and doesn’t sleep in the same place every day. Just like last year, the\u00a0VCF\u2019s president Hans Pohlmann<\/a>, a Dutch resident, closely monitors her progress in the field and through her GPS transmitter to ensure she is safe and healthy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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