With “Wally” and “Bavaria”, the largest bird of prey in the Alps is returning to the Bavarian mountains after more than 100 years. The two Bearded Vulture ladies let the huge media hype go down relatively calmly. Even though her heart was already beating quite a bit, as Anton Wegscheider from the State Association for Bird Protection described when he was kidding the young birds.
Hope that the population will now increase
Environment Minister Thorsten Glauber said to the BR that nature and species protection history would be written with the release into the wild. The reintroduction of the bearded vulture in Bavaria closes the gap between the Western Alps and the Eastern Alps.
Glauber hopes that the population will also increase with the help of the resettlement in the national park. Then a bird will fly over the Königssee, which is imposing and harmless because it is a scavenger. It is therefore a very special animal that is being resettled in the Bavarian Alps.
Bearded vultures are brought to a niche in the rock by crawlers
The young bearded vultures are now being carried up to a rock niche in the Reiteralm area in their boxes in a complex operation. The path is steep and ropes even had to be built on the last ascent.
Everything is also prepared in their new home: “Wally” and “Bavaria” are monitored with cameras 24 hours a day so that the rearing program is a success. At the end of June the young bearded vultures will be able to fly and then leave their clumps in the rock niche.
Bearded vultures can be seen on Facebook
The Berchtesgaden National Park is participating in the international project to reintroduce the bearded vulture in the Alps with the State Association for Bird Protection (LBV).
The bearded vulture project is set to run for ten years. Every year two to three young animals are to be released into the national park in order to increase the population.
The bird of prey, which mainly feeds on carrion and bones, is returning to the German Alps after more than 100 years. Those interested can follow the release into the wild on the Facebook page of the Berchtesgaden National Park.
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