Vulture (Gyps fulvus)
Mediterraneo
24/06/2009
RD
800 km the distance he had to go a vultures in search of food. The bird, which had been marked in the province of Castellón in 2005, appeared last day 16 in the Swiss town of Mannried . "The displacement of this vulture is exceptional because it is an adult," he said yesterday the English researcher Álvaro Camiña , member of the European working group vultures. And, unlike the young or immature adult vultures have as their principal aim the reproduction and breeding, so they do not usually make these trips.
According to
Camina, the cause of the trip could be lack of food in their place of residence, due to the disappearance in many parts of the carcass that used to feed, by the application of the regulations entered into force to stop mad cow disease.
According to data provided by English researcher, the vulture was tagged in the north of Castellón on September 6, 2005, in a monitoring program of this kind led by the Consell .
The presence of vultures English or from other countries Israel Mediterranean and Croatia or in countries of northern and central Europe it is common for many years between May and June. But in general, as Camiña , has always been birds in their first years of life, teenagers who still have no partner and are not subject to any breeding colony.
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Photo Juan Carlos Ibáñez , SVO Photographic FONS
Vultures in a garbage dump in the Pyrenees, in July 2009.
06/25/1909
Let me share some thoughts on the thread of the news published on these vultures. In my opinion this article is just another example of journalistic sensationalism with some hints of media opportunities, drawing on the Pisuerga passing through Valladolid, mounted an alleged news without more data than the very fact that a vulture marked Castellón is resighted in Switzerland no more.
In line with the news me several questions arise: for example, who says that the vulture bred in Castellón or any of the colonies the Iberian as to say that "the vulture necessarily Castellón " and therefore has shifted from Spain Switzerland up for having to eat? Could it not be a vulture Catalan or French who came to Castellón one day to eat outside the breeding season (when he was captured in fact) and have returned safely to an area close to their colonies of origin with good food availability as the Alps ? another, how no one has taken account of the period of time (3 plus years) elapsed between capture and recapture?, another one, what about subpopulations of vultures Catalunya and the many reintroduction projects SE France ? This might not belong to any of these vulture metapopulations (which is the usual population dynamics in this species) and move quietly through a large geographical area?, And then, lastly, is it appears that there is nothing food throughout the area between Castellón and central Europe ? "Cows are no longer in the Pyrenees , neither sheep nor pig farms or for anyone who does not comply with the rules of no animal shed on the field? Suffice a field trip to verify that it is not. Perhaps in the offices you see the issue very clear, but fortunately is still depositing carrion in the field despite the Brussels bureaucrats and their acolytes English contenders.
I think we do disservice to conservation when one uses this information to generate a supposed news and lend a pan ember of their interests. No way detracts from the need to keep our vultures (all of course!) I think there should be a little more serious to say these things with the firmness with which they are established. Taking the reasoning the absurd, if the vultures have been sighted in winter, could we not say that he had gone skiing in Switzerland? or better why not say that vultures more like cows English Swiss cows? (Say something absurd but spurious type at a time).
have to be serious .. at least I think so.
Message Pascual López in SVO Forum Bird Photo
Rafa Muñoz, SVO Photographic FONS
