{"id":6276,"date":"2019-04-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4vultures.org\/blog\/lots-of-bearded-vulture-easter-eggs-this-year-a-bumper-breeding-season\/"},"modified":"2021-03-17T09:40:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T09:40:41","slug":"lots-of-bearded-vulture-easter-eggs-this-year-a-bumper-breeding-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/pt\/blog\/lots-of-bearded-vulture-easter-eggs-this-year-a-bumper-breeding-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Lots of Bearded Vulture (Easter) eggs this year – a bumper breeding season"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A young chick from Ostrava Zoo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The chicks hatched at the\u00a0Guadalent\u00edn Specialised Breeding Centre in Andalucia<\/p>\n

The Bearded Vulture breeding season got off to an early start back in mid-December 2018 and now as it draws to a close and we make our final preparations for the release of some of the Bearded Vulture chicks into the wild, the final breeding results are in. The 2018\/19 season has so far been one of our best ever with a record number of chicks surviving which will allow us to release more birds than ever into the wild.<\/p>\n

Bearded Vultures in zoos<\/strong><\/p>\n

Within the Bearded Vulture captive breeding network there are 21 zoos and animal parks right across Europe from Helsinki Zoo in Finland to Torreferussa wildlife centre in Spain to Novosibirsk in Russia to Beaval Zoo in France. These zoos play an important role in not only the breeding of Bearded Vultures chicks that are released into the wild but also by raising awareness among visitors of our work reintroducing the species across Europe.<\/p>\n

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One of the young Bearded Vulture chicks from the Czech Republic’s Liberic Zoo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This year there were 21 breeding pairs of Bearded Vultures in the zoos, animal parks and private collections, that have laid\u00a029 eggs, 17 of which were fertile and resulted in\u00a011 chicks, that will be included in the breeding network or will be used for release into the wild.<\/p>\n

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The two young Bearded Vulture chicks in Austria after traveling safely on a Nordica Airlines flight from Estonia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This season there were a number of notably firsts within the captive breeding network – Liberec Zoo in the Czech Republic for example successfully raised not one but two young chicks from their breeding pair, adding to the 20 chicks that have been raised at the zoo,\u00a011 of which have been released into the wild since 1993. This year also, thanks to the generous support of Estonian airlines Nordica, we were able to transfer two young chicks from Tallinn Zoo in Estonia to the Richard Faust Zentrum breeding centre in Austria to be raised by an experienced foster pair.<\/p>\n

Specialised breeding centres<\/strong><\/p>\n