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 […]
LIFE LANNER project presentation tomorrow We have been invited to present the LIFE LANNER project at the Natura 2000 Mediterranean Biogeographical Seminar, as part of an exchange of good practices for European projects. Ours will be one of the 7 Italian projects among the 29 presented overall. Each presenter/participant will deliver a speech to briefly […]
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 […]
Delivering secure poles following our technical inspection Back in February, our partner e-distribuzione inspected power lines in the areas of Lake Vico Natural Reserve and Marturanum Regional Park. As we wrote about here, the aim was to identify power line sectors that might be dangerous for birds, specifically to young lanner falcons released within our […]
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 […]
Great achievements within the LIFE project On March 25th, at the Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Dr. Lucrezia Badalassi brilliantly discussed her Master of Science thesis. The title of her work is “A multidisciplinary approach to the conservation of an endangered species: the lanner falcon as a case study”. Research and analyses were conducted for […]
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 […]
The importance of communication and training Communication and training are the cornerstones of LIFE Lanner, without these two elements the project would lack the very foundations for its long-term success. Preparatory action A2, in addition to the development of a monitoring protocol for the regional population of lanner falcon (Falco biarmicus feldeggii), provides a training […]
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 Tuesday and Wednesday 2-3 February a team of technicians from e-distribuzione inspected Lake Vico Natural Reserve and the Regional Park of Marturanum, together with the staff of Regione Lazio responsible for those areas.As foreseen by action C3, the aim of the survey was to pinpoint problematic sectors of powerlines to secure them before releasing […]
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