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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