For the first time for circa 150 years, a pair of Bearded Vultures has laid an egg in the massif du Vercors (French Alps).
The last observation of this species dates back to 1870 in this place, before the implementation of reintroduction programs in the 2010s.
First Bearded Vulture egg-laying in...
This is a thread about zoo birds, not wild birds living on zoo grounds.
Several zoos in Europe keep free-flying colonies of White Storks, which partially helped recovery of this species in Western Europe in the late 20. century. Are there any other examples when zoos established colonies of...
Very impressed with this series. Four episodes, the first focusing on the Iberian Peninsula and reintroduction of Iberian Lynx and selective breeding to reintroduce 'Aurochs' by tracing the genes through domestic cattle. The second program focuses on the Carpathians and reintroduction of...