Vulture scavenger - webcam in Bulgaria
Vulture carnivorous - description
A wild nest of vultures is located in Bulgaria. Egyptian vulture is a name used in other countries.
This is the LIFE project "Egyptian Vulture New LIFE" HD streaming camera from a niche of vultures. To minimize camera interference, the team masked rock pebble equipment. At the beginning of April, both birds returned from wintering grounds in Africa. By the end of May, everyone can witness the hatching of chickens and their devotional care.
Such devices provide us with useful information about the diet and behavior of species. They help us make the right decisions when carrying out direct conservation activities, such as feeding, and also provide us with information on the ecology and biology of species. We witness the construction of the nest, the laying of eggs, the hatching of chickens and feeding.
Last but not least, technologies such as online video cameras connect people with the secret life of birds; to arouse interest and commitment to globally endangered species - one of the most important factors for its conservation.
The camera for online observation of a vulture's nest is the only one of its kind in the world. Camera 2 - sends from the adaptation aviary to the release of vultures kept in captivity in the wild and after the creation of the Rescue Center for the Ecology of the Green Balkans, where parents are currently caring for the young.
We are very grateful to the mobile operator A1, which provides direct power to the camera, Miroslav Mihailov for system maintenance and Antonia Kalchev for the provided internet connection and server!
Thank you to webcam operators:
The scavenger vulture (Neophron percnopterus) is the smallest and most endangered European vulture.
The scavenger vulture is a stout bird with a bare, unfeathered face with a strong, curved and pointed beak at the end. The adult bird is white or gray with black flies. Males and females are colored similarly. It occurs mainly in North Africa, southern Europe and Asia Minor. He prefers open countryside, bare mountain slopes or river valleys enclosed by rocks near human settlements. In southern Europe, it is mostly a migratory bird, wintering in Africa south of the Sahara. It eats smaller carcasses, but sometimes it also prefers caught food (grasshoppers, smaller rodents). The scavenger vulture was highly worshiped in ancient Egypt and represented the goddess Nechbet, the protector of the pharaohs and the sister of the goddess Eset. Together with the Egyptian cobra, he was the animal protector and symbol of Pharaoh's power. His depiction was part of the headdress of Egyptian queens, such as Cleopatra VII. Therefore, it is also referred to as Pharaoh's hen.
As the scavenger vulture is one of the most endangered species of birds, zoos and conservation organizations are working to reintroduce programs to return zoo animals to the wild.
Vulture carnivorous - live
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17.3. Camera 2 online again
24.1. UPDATE
Bad news that deeply saddened us: our friend Capovaccaia El èna, a very good mother, died yesterday afternoon. In 1993 we took her to Italy, we picked her up from the convalescence center in Extremadura, Spain. At that time she already had white feathers, so the current age was definitely over 33 years. It began to reproduce in 2001 with a male Modest, another exceptional parent who unfortunately died in 2012. The following year, they formed a couple with Salvator, a male acquired in Calabria. During her whole life, El èna perfectly raised 23 of her young and adopted many chickens of other problematic couples together with her two companions. The causes of death are still unknown, she seemed to be in perfect health and probably only came to the natural conclusion of her long life. So many of her children have been released, starting with the legendary Laert in 2004, the first vulture released in Europe by the tracking method. Thanks El èno!
https://www.facebook.com/lifegyptianvulture/photos/pcb.279130993545186/279130623545223/
13.12 kamara is not going yet, the first pair of vultures in captivity already has two eggs
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Hello Petro. The rock has been empty for a day, as I read, the vulture is a migratory bird. I would like to ask you if this year's chicks will look for new nests when they return and we will not see them here again. Vultures probably don't circle, except those on camera 2. Thank you for your answer.
Hello Marcelo, here on the wild nest next year the same pair of vultures will nest again as this year, vultures have been using the nest for several years. Young vultures do not return, they stay in Africa for about 4 years, they reach sexual maturity at five years. When their breeding time comes, they will return to the area and find a new nesting ground. They do not circulate on wild nests, but biologists give young to wild nests for education. This method is the most natural, but also the least tested, because it is the most demanding. A really experienced couple must be chosen for their upbringing. In 2018 and 2019, biologists placed the young from the Prague Zoo in a spare nest, circled them in advance and gave them a radio so that they could follow their journey south. The conservationists did the same this year with the young, which were raised in captivity.
The last phase of the carnivorous vulture replenishment program in Bulgaria in 2020 has been successfully completed. On August 5, captive-bred birds were planted in wild nests. They were immediately adopted by wild parents and their wild siblings. In both nests were exclusively responsible wild parents, who constantly took care of both chicks in their "home". In both nests, the wild chickens were older than those kept in captivity and left the nests much earlier, on 10 and 18 August. Simeon and Neli, our captive-bred vultures, left their nests on September 4 and 5, accompanied by their parents. Despite the late dates, both pups fly and gain experience very quickly. They are still at the nests with their parents, while their wild siblings began migrating on the 9th and 10th and are now crossing Turkey.
Deni, a juvenile who was placed in an artificial nest (hacked) on July 10 and released at the end of the same month, successfully adapted to the wild. She spent several weeks around the feeding site where she was released, and on August 18 she encountered a migratory route through the Dardanelles and Iskenderun Bay to a "wintering ground in Africa." The bird navigated quite well through bottlenecks along the East-Mediterranean route. However, Deni encountered some difficulties in the Sinai Peninsula - a geographical trap for many migrants, but she successfully solved the riddle and was out in 4 days and crossed Suez on September 3. The trip to Africa was clean and by September 10, it had arrived at the wintering ground in Chad.
Immature birds from the method of delayed release faced various fates. The three cubs were released on May 21, two months after being placed in an adaptation aviary. Sofia and Zara left the area almost immediately, on May 28 and 26. Sofia passed through Greece and Turkey and headed to the eastern Balkan mountains, where, unfortunately, on June 11, just three weeks after her release, she found death, electrocution. Zara had some problems at the beginning and spent more than a month around the feeding site of the Dadia-Soufli forest reserve, where the bird was constantly fed and observed by a project team in Greece. On July 10, she began to move north and embraced far east to the Strandzha Mountains, where she remained for several weeks and returned to the eastern Rhodopes, ready for migration. She hesitated several times to cross the sea toward the Dardanelles when, on September 14, the bird set out to migrate. The third Izi bird remained around the aviary and feeding site until June 9, when it launched several long-range reconnaissance flights covering vast areas of Thrace and the Eastern Rhodopes, both in Bulgaria, Greece and European Turkey. The bird crossed the Dardanelles on August 25 and arrived in Afionkarahissar province in Turkey in just 2 days, where it currently resides.
Migration map: http://lifeneophron.eu/#transmitters
31.8 - 10:35:45 it looks like the second chick flew out
Yes, I also think that the other one flew out. But it seems to suit them at home. Unlike other nests, where there is lively air traffic, here they both sit, peek, don't rain on them and their parents bring food 🙂
30.8 - 08:40:07 the whole family together on camera 1
Camera time 09.43- the chick returned to the nest and immediately went to feed, it seems that he is hungry on those roads.
28.8 A young vulture that completed its first flight 80 days after hatching.
https://www.facebook.com/TheReturnOfTheNeophron/photos/pcb.1715099808628745/1715098005295592/?type=3&theater
Camera time 06.23.30- I'm not sure, but it looks like the cub flew out of the rock 06.26.13- one of the parents arrives 09.33- the cub is alone
Hello Marcelo, it really looks like one of the cubs dared to take off.
Camera time 06.57 The cub has not yet flown out, its shadow on the wall can be seen on the right, but it is slowly deciding to move further from the rock. I like how well the siblings get along.
24.8 - 09:26:10 camera cleaning 🙂
Hello Peter. I don't know if it's still the same, but yesterday he licked the camera, the siblings and then one of the parents 😀 Looks like they've had a long time in the rock.
Beautiful Saturday morning. 08.20.20 🙂 time on camera
Nice morning Marcelo, 🙂 He licked the camera nicely, he could be seen slowly up to his neck 🙂 and at 08:21:50 the wingspan, beauty…
Hello Peter, I still have a question. I'm still asking something. Of course, I never need to answer as soon as it ever comes out to you 🙂 Camera 2- 08.04 is marked with green color 1, eg male and pink A female? At 14.04 there is another vulture that has no designation. Thank you for your reply and I wish you a nice coming weekend full of sunshine
Hello Marcelo, there are vultures on camera 2 who are part of the Green Balkans project. They have a total of 3 pairs of breeding vultures in the rescue center. The young vultures that hatch here are then released into the wild. The female is marked with pink tags on the wings, the male with green ones. The vulture without a mark (he only has a ring on his leg), who was on camera at 14:04, is their young this year.
I also wish you a nice weekend 🙂
7.8 - time on camera 9:04 one of the parents shows off just in front of the camera
Camera 1 time 07.44.18- Family together, parents have a "moment for themselves" 🙂
Camera 1- Time on camera 16.46 nice shot of vultures, practicing wings and cleaning. I don't know if you can tell if they are females or males. Sometimes they peek out of the rock, I guess they haven't flown out yet.
Gender can only be determined 100% by DNA testing.
Camera 1. Time on camera 17.02- It's fed, now take a nice look at me, but it's blowing, so the hairstyle doesn't hold 🙂 17.16- direct view of the camera, 17.38 still checking children and 17.50 leaving. Have a nice evening from the vultures
11.6. so we already have a baby in the first nest, he just fed!
2 superpowers are already in the world
3.6. wherever the squirrel is already visible, parents try to keep feeding
31.5 on nest 2 in time on camera 9:14:43 brawl between parents
20.5 Two new cameras from the nesting of rare, endangered vultures. The first camera is from a wild nest where they incubate an egg. Camera 2 transmits from an adaptation aviary, where they have one cub.
21.-5. kam2 the squirrel is barely visible there, it is better cleaned during a wild nest kam1