In two consecutive days, our team checked the permanent birds in the Centre which are included in breeding programmes reinforcing the wild populations of the two species.
A medical exam was performed not only on the permanent birds in the Centre but also on two young Egyptian vultures which were brough to us by the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB).
During monitoring in the East Rodopes region, two nests with young Egyptian vultures that won’t be able to survive the migration were noticed and this is why the birds were captured and transported to the Centre by the team of BSPB.
The young vultures will spend the winter with us and next year they will be released through an adaption aviary.
A young Eastern imperial eagle that came to the Centre in June was also examined. It stayed at our clinic for several days, afterwards it went to our foster pair of Eastern imperial eagles in the Centre. After the check-up of the eagle, the veterinary surgeons concluded that it is healthy and can already be separated from the pair. The eagle will stay with us until next year when it will also be released in the wild just like the Egyptian vultures.
The cages of all the birds were cleaned, disinfected and repaired where needed.
The activities are financed by the Municipality of Prague and Prague Zoo in the framework of project “Protection of the Egyptian vulture In the Balkans”.
