{"id":5999,"date":"2019-06-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4vultures.org\/blog\/two-bearded-vultures-released-to-help-boost-the-population-on-corsica\/"},"modified":"2021-03-17T07:57:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T07:57:53","slug":"two-bearded-vultures-released-to-help-boost-the-population-on-corsica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/pt\/blog\/two-bearded-vultures-released-to-help-boost-the-population-on-corsica\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Bearded Vultures released to help boost the population on Corsica"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bearded Vultures Cintu and Orba during the public presentation on Monday 10 June<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our captive-breeding team were last on the island of Corsica releasing two young Bearded Vulture in collaboration with the Parc Naturel R\u00e9gional de Corse back in 2017<\/a>. This year we here at the Vulture Conservation Foundation have been delighted to be back working with our Corsican colleagues to help conserve the population of Bearded Vultures on the island. The collaboration this year has seen the successful extraction of two eggs from a wild nest that had been consistently unsuccessful (to build a pool of Corsican birds in our captive breeding network) and culminated in the release of two chicks on Monday 10 June, helping to strengthen the important population of Bearded Vultures on Corsica.<\/p>\n

Bearded Vulture conservation on Corsica<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Over the last 25 years the population of Bearded Vultures has suffered a dramatic decline, which has been especially marked since 2007, dropping from 10 breeding pairs to just five in the 2017\/18 breeding season<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Bearded Vultures on Corsica are the last remaining original population of the species that included the wider populations once found across the Alps, Sicily and Sardinia, which is known as a meta-population. This breeding population is vitally important as it is the last surviving genetic pool of this historic population of Bearded Vultures. The species has since been reintroduced with success to the Alps, where there are today more than 52 breeding pairs<\/p>\n

As part of our commitment to the conservation of this population we, along with our partners on Corsica and other international organisations, helped devise an emergency action plan to address\u00a0 the decline which involved releasing captive-bred birds on the island and creating a genetic reserve by including birds from the Corsican population in the captive-breeding network, plus a suite of other conservation actions.<\/p>\n

Releasing captive-bred Bearded Vultures<\/strong><\/p>\n

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On Monday 10 June, two young birds were released into the wild as part of the 2019 Bearded Vulture Release Season.<\/p>\n

The two birds, a male from Germany\u2019s Nuremberg Zoo<\/a> and a female from the Richard Faust Specialised Breeding Centre<\/a> in Austria arrived on Thursday 6 June with Nuremberg Zoo\u00b4s staff. We would like to thank our colleagues from Nuremberg zoo and Deputy Director Dr. Helmut M\u00e4gdefrau who arranged the transportation of the two chicks.<\/p>\n

In a public presentation the two birds were named Cintu and Orba, before being taken to their release site where they will monitored and fed without any human contact by the team from the\u00a0Parc Naturel R\u00e9gional de Corse<\/a>\u00a0until they fledge.<\/p>\n