spanish vultures (1 Viewer)

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sukomoco

New member

• Apr 13, 2004

• #1

nearly 300 vultures have been reintroduced in Italian and French national parks, coming from Spain...this is a great notice isn't it?If we notice that vulture populastion in Italy was nearly unnexistent..

 

Edward

Umimmak

• Apr 20, 2004

• #2

Welcome to the forum sukomoco.

It would be great if vultures could regain some of the breeding areas they once held throughout Europe. I was very impressed to see such huge numbers of Griffon Vultures across Spain last year and what seemed like healthy populations of Black Vulture in Extremadura. I hope the conservation success in Spain can serve as an example for other countries with vulture populations.

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birdman

Орнитол&

• Apr 20, 2004

• #3

Hello again sukomoco,

This is good news.

Let's all hope the reintroduction is fully succesful for the long term! :t:

 

Gaga

Well-known member

• Apr 24, 2004

• #4

Hi! I'm a bit ignorant on the situation of vultures in Europe, but I still have a question... Do the "spanish vultures" and the "italian/french vultures" are considered the same population? If not, I would see a problem here, due to the fact that the genetic pool of the "italian/french population" will be diluted in the genetic pool coming from elsewhere. On the other side, if they are considered to be the same population, this is very good news!!!

 

Rasmus Boegh

BF member

• Apr 29, 2004

• #5

The Spanish vultures are the same subspecies as in Italy & France. No probs there... Also, Vultures are wellknown for flying long distances. Rarely a few even manage to get all the way up to northern Europe! Slowly (very slowly that is, we're probably talking at very least 50-100 years), if given the chance, the Italian/French population would have had a natural input from other populations with a surplus (like the Spanish). So, in this case, we're just speeding things up a bit... helping nature so to speak

 

cuckooroller

Registered User

• Apr 29, 2004

• #6

G. fulvus in Peninsular Italy had basically died out. There were a few remaining in Sardegna.