Over the past week vets from the Wildlife Rehabilitation and Breeding Centre, the team of project “Life for Lesser Kestrel” LIFE19 NAT/BG/001017, funded by Programme LIFE of the EU and students from Trakia University – Stara Zagora, carried out prophylaxis of Lesser Kestrels included in the breeding programs of the project, located in the Center.
Within two days each one of the sixty Lesser Kestrels received individual attention from our vets, the examination mainly consisted of internal and external deworming, tracking weights against previous years, trimming beaks and claws, and assessing the general condition of the birds.
While the examinations in the clinic were going on in full force, in the homes of the kestrels was the rest of our team, together with a team of students from Trakia University, who joined forces to maintain the cages, consisting mainly of cleaning the aviaries, replacing the old felt in the nests, disinfecting the rooms, repairing the nests and perches, and also repairing the adaptation aviaries from which we release the kestrel chicks.
We have found that our Lesser Kestrels are in excellent health, which will live in renovated aviaries, and we are looking forward to their first copulation and the chicks that will sound the Rescue Center with their squeaky voices.
A remainder, that in 2024 the first copulation was detected at the end of February. Keep an eye on our news this year to find out when the first copulation will be in 2025.
Within two days each one of the sixty Lesser Kestrels received individual attention from our vets, the examination mainly consisted of internal and external deworming, tracking weights against previous years, trimming beaks and claws, and assessing the general condition of the birds.
While the examinations in the clinic were going on in full force, in the homes of the kestrels was the rest of our team, together with a team of students from Trakia University, who joined forces to maintain the cages, consisting mainly of cleaning the aviaries, replacing the old felt in the nests, disinfecting the rooms, repairing the nests and perches, and also repairing the adaptation aviaries from which we release the kestrel chicks.
We have found that our Lesser Kestrels are in excellent health, which will live in renovated aviaries, and we are looking forward to their first copulation and the chicks that will sound the Rescue Center with their squeaky voices.
A remainder, that in 2024 the first copulation was detected at the end of February. Keep an eye on our news this year to find out when the first copulation will be in 2025.
