In the beginning of autumn, the team of Green Balkans’ Wildlife and rehabilitation center made pre-migratory monitoring of Egyptian vulture nesting territories.
The aim of the monitoring was to check the condition of the pairs and their nestlings. As you probably know, the Egyptian vulture is extremely vulnerable during migration and it is significant to make sure that the chicks can perform this long flight.
As a result of the monitoring in Northeastern Bulgaria, despite the successfully fledged chicks, two chicks were found to have hatched later than the chicks from other nests. The statistics from previous years proves higher mortality rate for the latest hatched chicks. To give them better chance to survive, the Green Balkans’ team along with colleagues from the Bulgarian society for the protection of birds climbed up in the nests and took the chicks down. They were accommodated in the aviaries of the Rescue center to spend the next few months.
Two more Egyptian vultures will overwinter in the Green Balkans’ Rescue center. They hatched from eggs of a wild pair in Eastern Rhodope mountain, after they were taken from the nest due to conflict with another bird in their territory, which threatened their survival.
One more bird will join the juvenile birds for delayed release and it was hatched by a pair from the breeding program of the Rescue center.
Seven birds it total will spend the winter in captivity and will be fed and monitored daily by the team of the Center.
The activities of Green Balkans, related to monitoring andrelease of Egyptian vultures are implemented with the financial support of the International center for birds of preyICBP, Great Britain.
The aim of the monitoring was to check the condition of the pairs and their nestlings. As you probably know, the Egyptian vulture is extremely vulnerable during migration and it is significant to make sure that the chicks can perform this long flight.
As a result of the monitoring in Northeastern Bulgaria, despite the successfully fledged chicks, two chicks were found to have hatched later than the chicks from other nests. The statistics from previous years proves higher mortality rate for the latest hatched chicks. To give them better chance to survive, the Green Balkans’ team along with colleagues from the Bulgarian society for the protection of birds climbed up in the nests and took the chicks down. They were accommodated in the aviaries of the Rescue center to spend the next few months.
Two more Egyptian vultures will overwinter in the Green Balkans’ Rescue center. They hatched from eggs of a wild pair in Eastern Rhodope mountain, after they were taken from the nest due to conflict with another bird in their territory, which threatened their survival.
One more bird will join the juvenile birds for delayed release and it was hatched by a pair from the breeding program of the Rescue center.
Seven birds it total will spend the winter in captivity and will be fed and monitored daily by the team of the Center.
The activities of Green Balkans, related to monitoring andrelease of Egyptian vultures are implemented with the financial support of the International center for birds of preyICBP, Great Britain.
