And after almost three months, creates hatched – Express

LPN

The Herdade da strife in the municipality of Moura, now has a new tenant. One of the eggs laid by one of two black vulture couples who nested there for the first time in 40 years, finally broke out recently.

The announcement was made by the League for Nature Protection (LPN), for whom “this birth confirms the highly anticipated beginning of the restoration of a breeding stock of this bird in the south of Portugal.”

Since March the LIFE project technicians “Habitat Lince Vulture” – coordinated by LPN, in collaboration with the municipal company running the farm – they monitored the nest where there was attitude. Two of the 30 artificial nests built there in the Life project had been chosen for two pairs of this scavenger and gregarious bird flying by.

As the vultures like to form colonies and are faithful to the place where they were born, the new breed gives new impetus to the conservation project of this kind, “Critically Endangered” and “marks the beginning of the restoration of one breeding stock of the species in Alentejo, key to the recovery of the black vulture in the country, “says the LPN in its statement.

The International Tagus and the Douro International are the two other regions where the black vulture returned to nest successfully in Portugal, since 2010. In the Tagus there are 12 nesting couples and Douro just one. The Alentejo now has two breeding pairs, one of which has proven to be successful.

The largest bird of prey in Europe, of up to 2.80 meters wide and 13 kilos in weight, has a key role in cleaning dead animals in the fields, contributing to the protection of public health .