Soon the largest, native birds could be circling the Alps again.
But a young animal from the Nuremberg zoo will not be there.
Update from March 19:
The hopes of being able to contribute a young bearded vulture from Franconia to the reintroduction program of the State Association for Bird Protection (LBV) have been dashed.
As the Vice Director of the Nuremberg Zoo, Jörg Beckmann, announced, there is no birth to celebrate this year.
“One bearded vulture egg broke during the brood, the other was fertilized, but the embryo died before hatching.
This is of course a shame for the reintroduction project, but this is not a completely unusual occurrence in nature and in the bird world. "
Now the release project will only include birds from other breeding programs.
But one remains optimistic.
“Of course we would have preferred a young Franconian bearded vulture at the start of our project, but then one of the birds will come from Nuremberg in 2022 or 2023 and we are hopeful that we will receive other young birds from the breeding program for this year to help with the release of the Bearded Vultures in Germany as planned in 2021, "says LBV Chairman Dr.
Norbert Schäffer.
First report from March 12th
Nuremberg - They can no longer be found in the wild.
They have been considered extinct for 100 years: bearded vultures.
With a wingspan of up to three meters, they are the largest native birds and are not dangerous to livestock or humans.
Bearded vultures are pure scavenger and bone-eater.
Now a boy is about to be born in the zoo in Nuremberg *.
This is also the start of a project in which the animals are to be relocated again.
Nuremberg Zoo: Young bearded vulture is to move to the Berchtesgaden National Park
In January the female bearded vulture laid two eggs in the Nuremberg Zoo, but one of them was not fertilized.
One of the two eggs broke a short time later.
However, employees in the zoo assume that it was the unfertilized.
That is why it could now be just under three months after the eggs were laid and a small bearded vulture will soon see the light of day, reports the German Press Agency (
dpa
).
How things will go on with the bearded vulture boy is already certain.
It should stay in the zoo for another three months.
Then the rare bird goes to the Berchtesgaden National Park.
He becomes part of a European breeding project at the Watzmann.
Together with two other animals, a new population is to be built.
Nuremberg Zoo: Poroto flatland paper male moves to Austria
The young animals are to be fed in an artificial nest in the area around Mount Watzmann in southeast Bavaria until they are fully fledged.
They are supposed to get the food via pipes: raw meat and increasingly also bones, as the adult bearded vultures would eat.
"We are curious to see whether everything will work out in Nuremberg *," says Markus Erlwein, spokesman for the State Association for Bird Protection in Bavaria (LBV), who is supporting the project.
“We would be delighted if the first German Bearded Vulture to revolve around the Watzmann came from Franconia.” It is not yet entirely clear where the other two animals come from.
"The animals have to match each other genetically and be about the same age," said Beckmann.
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The last flatland paper left the Nuremberg zoo in the direction of Austria.
© Joerg Beckmann / City of Nuremberg
On the other hand, there was a rather sad farewell to the lowland wallpaper.
The male Poroto, who has lived in Nuremberg * since 2009, has moved to Schmiding in Austria.
There he now lives with a young female on a newly built facility.
His previous mate, the elderly tapier female Daisy, died in 2020. With this, the zoo is giving up keeping flatland tapestries and concentrating on the conservation of the endangered species of saddlecloth tapers from Southeast Asia, writes the city in a press release.
(tel / dpa)
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