The birds have been seen close to their nest, on a cliff, taking turns hatching and protecting the eggs.
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A couple of bearded vultures have laid eggs in the south of Vercors, a first in the wild for a hundred years, the Hauts Plateaux du Vercors reserve announced on Tuesday March 1. For a century, the raptor has only reproduced in captivity, reports France Bleu Drôme Ardèche.
“It’s an event in the Vercors, but it’s also an event for Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and France”, rejoices Bruno Cuerva, guard of the Hauts Plateaux du Vercors reserve. The birds were seen close to their nest on a cliff, taking turns hatching and protecting the eggs.
The bearded vulture is being reintroduced in the Vercors: “It’s a work that started in 2010 to arrive at a reproduction in 2022, and it will undoubtedly put back in the sky of the Vercors a species that has disappeared from our skies for at least more than a century”, says Bruno Cuerva. The animals that have laid eggs come from zoos. The species reproduces after seven or eight years.