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Satellite Tracked Vulture Movements 02 – 09 August 2021

The latest movements of our Bearded Vulture, Mollie, and our Cape Vulture N207, for the past week, that are fitted with satellite transmitters and included in our monitoring programme

The Bearded Vulture Breeding Programme has also just concluded their harvest of eggs from the wild for this season to boost the captive flock. Seven eggs were collected overall, 6 in South Africa and 1 in Lesotho. One was found to be not viable and 5 have hatched already.

See below for a photo of the first hatchling from a Lesotho egg.

Bearded Vulture chick. Photo by Shannon Hoffman- Breeding Programme Manager.

NEST CAMERA

Please also find the latest images from our Nest Camera. Our chick should be hatching any day soon!