New eggs laid: off to a much better start than 2021 You might recall that 2021 was not a good year overall for many bird species. In the whole country, out of 10 couples monitored by the project, only 3 eggs were laid overall, and our cutting-edge captive breeding laboratory only hosted a single egg […]
Getting everything ready for the new year On the first days of the new year, the personnel of the Vico rescue centre finished setting everything up for the upcoming lanner breeding season. All birds were checked, all aviaries thoroughly cleaned, and the nests were prepared. Lanners, like other falcons, lay their eggs in a shallow […]
Two years of lanner falcon conservation The second year of LIFE LANNER is coming to an end! We went over the numerous activities carried out for lanner falcon conservation. We also addressed some technical and scientific aspects of the approach and methodology proposed for the project. The staff of Ente Monti Cimini, the Lazio Region […]
Meet Patrick, our first and only Lanner chick for the year Meet Patrick. Patrick is the only Lanner chick scheduled to be released by the project this year. As explained in our last post, the 2021 breeding season has been difficult for this species all over Italy, with wildlife rescue centres and even breeding centres […]
Today we have very sad news: the wild lanner falcon egg in our incubator failed to hatch. Here’s the background story for those who haven’t followed our latest updates. A wild Lanner egg in our captive breeding lab: background In March, LIPU Livorno (CRUMA) rescued a wild female Lanner. She was unable to fly due […]
Last Monday, LIPU recovered a female Lanner who had been wounded in a wing that was hospitalized at CRUMA, a centre for the recovery of marine and other aquatic birds in Livorno managed by LIPU. A few hours after arriving at the center, the bird unexpectedly laid an egg. As part of the existing collaboration […]
An important update in view of the upcoming breeding season. We just finished turning a room of the rescue centre of the Lago di Vico Natural Reserve into a laboratory for the captive breeding of lanner falcons. The room is equipped with a fully automatic R-COM R-20 egg incubator, a R-COM hot chamber to keep […]
On Thursday 29 October a partners’ meeting took place at the Urbeveteris Falconis falcon farm in Orvieto, central Italy. Our project managers, Dr. Stefano Picchi and Dr. Giuseppe Puddu, attended together with Dr. Giampiero Tirone (manager of the wildlife rescue centre at the Lake Vico Natural Reserve). Dr. Marco Martini, veterinarian who specializes in birds […]
Our first LIFE Lanner project update is about the physiological condition of the lanner falcons in our aviaries at the wildlife rescue centre “CRAS Lago di Vico”. On July 24, endoscopies were carried out on our six captive individuals by doctor Marco Martini of the veterinary hospital S. Carlo di Spesiano (TV), a specialist in […]
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