At CERM Centro Rapaci Minacciati this is the hottest time of the year: two chicks have been born so far within a week and others are expected in June. As in the past years all the eggs are artificially incubated, the chicks are born in an incubator and after a few days they are transferred ... Read more

In May 2020 Diego and Lucrezia, after spending autumn and winter in south-western Sicily and southern Calabria respectively, returned to Basilicata, where they had been freed in summer 2019. The two young Egyptian vultures, born at CERM Centro Rapaci Threatened in 2018 and 2017 respectively, had left the release area, located in the Murgia Materana ... Read more

As happened last year, Sara has returned to Italy! The young Egyptian vulture left Niger on March 18, 2020 and on April 28 reached Sicily, after crossing Algeria and Tunisia and stopping for a day on the Island of Pantelleria. During her trip in Africa, Sara stopped for many days between Algeria and Tunisia, where ... Read more

On 3 March 2020, the annual surveillance activity of the Egyptian vulture nesting areas began, envisaged by action C.2 of the LIFE Egyptian vulture project. The same territories of the year 2019 are being visited in order to detect the disorders that may affect them during the reproductive period. In particular, specific monitoring of 11 ... Read more