Birds
News on birdlife around the Picos de Europa. From sub-adult Lammergeier incursions from the Pyrenees and the possible reintroduction programme to Avocets and Little egrets on the Costa Verde. Also included here are personal observations of resident and summer-visiting birds.
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Following on from the birds' arrival in the Covadonga mountains last month, the two young Lammergeiers (now named Leoncia and Deva) were released last Friday morning, watched by members of the Asturian government, shepherds and conservationists.
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Finally, two Lammergeier chicks made it to the Picos last Tuesday, the 15th of June. Transported from the Aragonese Pyrenees having been rescued from inviable nests, the two females are now
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After 50-odd years of having disappeared from the Picos de Europa due to intense persecution
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Since April of this year, when an individual was first sighted in