Young Aida is not going into the hacking box alone As we anticipated last week, our beloved young lanner Aida is not going to be released from the hacking box alone. Right now, she is growing up under the careful scrutiny of the Lake Vico Natural Reserve’s personnel, and slowly becoming more and more independent. […]
Aida is becoming independent of her parents Young Aida, the lanner born at Lake Vico rescue centre, spent a couple of weeks being cared for by her parents, Gea and Atlante. We made sure their lack of parenting experience would not put the life of their chick at risk, and everything went indeed smoothly. We […]
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 […]
A difficult year for many bird species The 2021 breeding season has been remarkable, in a negative way, for many species. Egg laying in many seabird colonies has been delayed, migration was shifted for both passerines and raptors. Our favourite raptors have struggled this year as well, threatening our goal of Lanner falcon release. LIFE […]
Replenishing the lanner falcon population in Lazio One of the main objectives of the LIFE Lanner project, supported by the Italian Ministry of the Environment, is to replenish the lanner falcon population of Lazio, and hopefully of central Italy. As stated in our mission, we plan to do so by releasing captive-bred lanners over the […]
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