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After the father was electrocuted to death: the hawkish eagle eggs were rescued from the nest on the cliff
In an operation by the Nature Authority and the Golan Rescue Unit, two eggs of the rare chicken were rescued from the nest in which it nested in Nahal Zavitan in the Golan Heights.
In Israel, 12-14 pairs of eagles remain - an endangered species.
Today the main risk factor is electric shock, but there is a new danger in the form of wind turbine farms located on the level
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Eli Ashkenazi
Wednesday, 03 February 2021, 22:00
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In the video: After the father was electrocuted to death - the hawkish eagle eggs were rescued from the nest on the cliff (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority)
Two eggs of a rare hawk eagle that died from an electric shock were rescued on Sunday from the nest where it nested in Nahal Zavitan in the Golan Heights.
The eggs were transferred to an incubator in the Khaybar Nature Reserve in Carmel, in the hope that they would be fertile and hatch into hawkish eagle chicks that would be released into the wild in the future.
At around 4:30 PM on Sunday, the hawk eagle was found dead as a result of an electric shock.
The eagle was found after the signals received from the transmitter found on it showed that it was not in motion and the concern arose that it was dead.
The hawk eagle and its mate were released into the wild several years ago as part of the "Spreading Wing" project to return rare birds to the wild.
The couple recently began nesting on a cliff in Nahal Zavitan, a place where hawkish eagles have not nested in the past 19 years.
The establishment of a new nest in Israel was good news, given the alarming downward trend in the number of hawk eagles, which are defined in Europe and Israel as a critically endangered species.
In Israel, only 14-12 pairs of hawkish eagles remain.
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Eagle Eagle (Photo: Official Website, Ohad Avraham)
In the past, the impressive chicken nested in all the mountainous and rocky areas in Israel, but the population in the north of the country was severely affected 50-40 years ago by poisoning as a result of excessive use of pesticides for agriculture.
Thus all the pairs of eagles that nested in the Galilee, the Carmel and the Judean mountains disappeared.
30-20 years ago, most of the eagles that nested in Samaria were also damaged, and at the same time, nesting in the mountains of Eilat also stopped.
The most significant risk factor currently affecting the hawk eagle population is electrocution.
Many other birds are dying from electric shocks, including rare and endangered birds.
Four and a half years ago, two eagles were found dead in the Golan Heights that died from electric shock, and next to it, one of the last four tailed eagles that survived in Israel died of electric shock in the Springs Valley.
About a year and a half ago, a hawk eagle was electrocuted in the Valley of the Springs.
A new danger that is emerging these days comes from wind turbine farms located in the Golan Heights.
The eggs were incubated in the hope that they would be fertile.
The nest from which the eggs were extracted, Nahal Zavitan (Photo: official website, Hanoch Tal, Nature and Parks Authority / Police Spokeswoman)
Elika Matuf, inspector of the Nature and Parks Authority in the Gamla Reserve, said that "in view of the hawk's electrocution this week, it was clear that the nest in which he nested with his mate would be abandoned by the female."
"The two spouses work together, they constantly alternate between incubating, heating the eggs and turning them," he said.
Following this it was decided to extract the eggs from the nest.
The operation was assigned to the Golan Rescue Unit and the inspectors of the Nature and Parks Authority, and in the first place, the rescue team reached the top of the cliff above Nahal HaZavitan.
According to Ariel the Marshal of the Golan Rescue Unit, "Due to the Nature Authority's directive not to operate a mechanical winch that is noisy and could frighten other birds, we lowered the rescuer with a rope by hand only by surfing 70 meters on a cliff."
Matuf, who also serves as a volunteer in the rescue unit, dangled down and said that "the rescue was difficult. It was both a long descent down the cliff and a rescue that required effort and slow work, while lying in a nest."
He said the mother left the nest only as he approached it.
"Now we just have to hope that the eggs will be fertile and that chicks will hatch from them that will one day return to nature," Matuf added.
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