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Ten weeks after its release in Fuerteventura, Tamar\u00e1n is seemingly well adapted to its wild home \u2013 he moves with other Egyptian vultures, in ever wider flights. Tamar\u00e1n\u00b4s movements are being followed because he carries a GPS tag on its back, put by researchers from the Estacion Biologica de Donana-CSIC and from Cabildo de Fuerteventura. This tag\u00a0gives\u00a0them data on the bird\u00b4s whereabouts. We thus know he has slept on poles, and has been to some cattle grazing estates on the island (see photo, data from Jos\u00e9 Antonio Don\u00e1zar, Estacion Biol\u00f2gica Donana-CSIC).<\/span><\/p>\n The canary island Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus majorensis), locally known as Guirre, is an endangered subspecies now confined to the islands of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. Following some conservation effort, led by the Cabildo de Fuerteventura, Estacion Biologica de Donana-CSIC, and others,\u00a0to insulate electricity pylons and eliminate some lines, the population is now slowly recovering \u2013 the 2013 census showed there are now around 230 individuals, and 47 pairs, almost all in Fuerteventura (4 in Lanzarote).<\/span><\/p>\n Last year saw also the first ever successful captive breeding of the endemic subspecies \u2013 after one decade of failed trials, one of the two pairs in captivity \u2013 birds that were recovered severely wounded and cannot be released \u2013 managed to lay a fertile egg, that was incubated artificially, and raised by a puppet in the first few weeks, before being reunited with its father. The VCF has given the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, who manages the wildlife rehabilitation center where all this happened, with technical advice \u2013 see the details and photos in a news posting below.<\/span><\/p>\n Now Tamar\u00e1n \u2013 named after the aboriginal name for Gran Canaria, flies free, and is quickly becoming a celebrity in the archipelago, Last weekend the local authorities from Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria have opened an exhibition about him (see photo).<\/span><\/p>\n With a recovering population in Fuerteventura, and with the first success in captive breeding, local authorities and conservationists are also now considering the possibility of attempting the reintroduction of the species into Gran Canaria \u2013 from where it has disappeared in the 1980s.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ten weeks after its release in Fuerteventura, Tamar\u00e1n is seemingly well adapted to its wild home \u2013 he moves with other Egyptian vultures, in ever wider flights. Tamar\u00e1n\u00b4s movements are being followed because he carries a GPS tag on its back, put by researchers from the Estacion Biologica de Donana-CSIC and from Cabildo de Fuerteventura. 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