On May 26, and as part of the measures to strengthen the Life Bonelli Project, three chicks of this species arrived in Navarre to start their release process by means of hacking. This procedure intends to imitate their natural breeding process, so that after a few days in the hacking they are released and start their flying and hunting exercises without their parents, but coming back to certain areas where food is still provided for them.
More than twenty days ago we introduced five young Bonelli’s Eagles in the Sierra Oeste (Eastern Mountains) of Madrid, some days later a sixth one. The news are that during the past days the last one, more lagging behind, joined the others in their first movements within the release zone: three males (Turón, Coín and Polopos) and three females (Argonne, Verdun and Álora).
In the photo, a forest officer of Andalusia makes the gesture of the butterfly in support of the Red Natura 2000 Day, celebrated this past May 21, invited by the Project Life + Activa. During a joint venture between GREFA and the Andalusian Council for Environmental and Territorial Planning in the mountains near Ronda (Malaga), Bonelli’s Eagles chicks suffering from trichomonas were rescued. Of the nest intervened, one of the two birds was affected and was brought to our wildlife hospital for treatment and cure and will be released within a few weeks in one of the areas of reintroduction of the Life Bonelli Project. The other one, healthy, was marked with a GPS in the breeding zone in order to track it when it flies from the nest.
Today, May 21, we make the gesture of the butterfly in support of the Red Natura 2000 Day promoted by the Project LIFE +Activa. Staff of the COFIB and the Foundation Natura Parc participated in this initiative of the project LIFE + Activa of SEO/BirdLife uploading this photo:
On May 5 and 6, two members of the GREFA captive breeding team travelled once again to the quiet village of Saint Denis du Payré on the French west coast to fetch three Bonelli’s Eagles chicks born there. At the end of their stay in our center in Majadahonda they will be reintroduced in their natural environment in Navarre as part of Life Bonelli (Mallorca, Madrid, Navarre and Álava) initiated in 2014. A short time ago we withdrew another two chicks Christhian which, together with four others, are already in their artificial nest in Madrid.