Most at risk vulture reappears in Friuli reserve

Europe's most at risk vulture has
reappeared in a Friuli nature reserve, sources said at the
weekend.

   
The Egyptian vulture, which is the most art risk of extinction
on the continent as well as Europe's smallest, is back nesting
in the Cornino Lake Reserve.

   
Nature experts and park officials said it had come from Spain.

   
The reserve's scientific director, Fulvio Genero, said: "there
are now fewer than 3,000 pairs of Egyptian vulture, over half of
which are found in the Iberian Peninsula. In Italy, on the other
hand, only a dozen or so pairs remain, mostly concentrated in
Sicily.

   

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