But where is Eglazine? THE Cévennes National Park published a call for witnesses on Friday on social networks to try to find the trace of this bearded vulture, who had been missing for several months. This female, born in captivity and released in the Massif Central in 2020, was famous because she spent her summers wandering between the Netherlands and northern Germany. But since spring, there has been no news from the park.
“Unfortunately, we received worrying data from the Eglazine GPS beacon in May,” explains the park. Despite several searches carried out on site by our partners, we were unable to find it, nor its tag. His fate remains unknown. »
A black head and a gray-brown body
The Occitan park, however, hopes that she is well, and that she “only escaped surveillance [du] network “. Anyone who sees this bearded vulture is invited to notify the Cévennes National Park services. This specimen has a black head, which gradually begins to lighten. Its body is grey-brown, with some discolored feathers, but “which may have already been replaced”, explain the park services.
The bearded vulture is a large, protected and threatened vulture in France. The species is unfortunately regularly the victim of shooting, but also of wind turbines.