{"id":6421,"date":"2018-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4vultures.org\/blog\/first-clutch-of-the-bearded-vulture-breeding-season-laid-by-pair-in-andaluc%c3%ada\/"},"modified":"2018-12-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T00:00:00","slug":"first-clutch-of-the-bearded-vulture-breeding-season-laid-by-pair-in-andaluc%c3%ada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/es\/blog\/first-clutch-of-the-bearded-vulture-breeding-season-laid-by-pair-in-andaluc%c3%ada\/","title":{"rendered":"First clutch of the bearded vulture breeding season laid by pair in Andaluc\u00eda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bearded vulture breeding pair Joseph and Keno<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last year the first clutch in the bearded vulture breeding season among the captive-bred population was laid by a female in Austria’s\u00a0Richard Faust Specialised Breeding Centre<\/a>. This year the accolade for the first laying goes to Andaluc\u00eda’s\u00a0Guadalent\u00edn Specialised Breeding Centre.<\/p>\n

Joseph and Keno<\/strong><\/p>\n

Resident at the\u00a0Guadalent\u00edn Specialised Breeding Centre. This pair became the first couple in the captive breeding population to lay the\u00a0a clutch of the season on December 7 at 11.30 am. The staff at the Breeding Centre will monitor the pair closely during the incubation to couple to ensure maximum reproductive success. However, it will be two months before the staff know if the egg is successful.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Guadalent\u00edn Specialised Breeding Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Founded in 1996\u00a0the\u00a0Guadalent\u00edn Specialised Breeding Centre (Centro de Cr\u00eda de del Quebrantahuesos de Cazorla) is located at the heart of the\u00a0Natural Park of the Sierras de Cazorla, one of the bearded vulture reintroduction sites in\u00a0Andaluc\u00eda. Since the first couple, Joseph (from Dresden Zoo, Germany) and\u00a0Zumeta (from Zoo de la Garenne, France) arrived at the centre in 1998\u00a0the centre has produced\u00a076 young birds\u00a0that have been released into the wild across Europe or joined the captive breeding population. Today the centre is home to seven breeding pairs: Cab\u00fas and Corba, El\u00edas and Viola, L\u00e1zaro and Nava, Joseph and Keno, Andalusia and Salvia, Borosa and Toba and Tranco and Sabina and several other individual birds that have not yet began breeding such as GypHelp or Rin Ran. Managed by the\u00a0Fundaci\u00f3n Gypaetus<\/a> under the\u00a0Junta de Andaluc\u00eda’s Ministry of Environment and Territorial Planning, the Centre\u00a0is one of the three large specialised breeding centres for bearded vultures that is part of the Bearded Vulture Captive Breeding Network.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Bearded Vulture Captive Breeding Network<\/strong><\/p>\n

This network of 37 zoos, five specialized\u00a0breeding centres and two private collections, that\u00a0are home to the\u00a0174 birds which are part of the Bearded Vulture European Endangered Species Programme<\/a> organised under EAZA (European Association of Zoos and Aquaria). This captive breeding\u00a0programme has been the foundations for the successful reintroduction of the bearded vulture across Europe. Since starting in 1978 we have coordinated this collaboration of different organisations which aims\u00a0to restore the bearded vulture to its former range across Europe. In 2018 we released 13 captive-bred birds in five different regions (France’s pre-Alps, Spain’s\u00a0Andaluc\u00eda and Maestrazgo regions, the Swiss Alps and Austria).\u00a0<\/p>\n