Thursday, June 25, 2015

For 40 years no one was born black vulture in Alentejo – Daily News – Lisbon

The League for the Protection of Nature (LPN) today announced the birth of the first black vulture registered in the Alentejo for more than 40 years, which confirms the restoration of a bird in the breeding stock in southern Portugal.

creates born of an incubated egg “successfully” by one of two black vulture couples who are nesting in artificial nests installed in the homestead of Strife in the municipality of Moura, Beja district within LIFE project to promote the Iberian lynx habitat and the black vulture in southeastern Portugal, explains the LPN in a statement sent to Lusa agency.

This is the birth of the “first creates Vulture -Black on record in Alentejo for more than 40 years, “which” confirms the long-awaited beginning of the restoration of a breeding stock “of the bird, critically endangered, after several decades without reproducing in southern Portugal underlines the LPN.

The birth of the calf was “recently confirmed” during monitoring conducted at two breeding pairs, which were detected last month of March in artificial nesting platforms installed in the homestead of Strife owned by Moura Chamber.

According to the LPN, the birth of the offspring “is a success of the measures” the LIFE project “Habitat Lince Vulture” and “marks the beginning of the restoration of a breeding stock of the species Alentejo, key to the recovery of the black vulture in the country. “

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