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ÁGUIA-IMPERIAL juvenil appears in North of Portugal

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February

ÁGUIA-IMPERIAL juvenil appears in North of Portugal

It is very rare to find imperial eagles, species Critically Endangered, so to the north of the country. This bird was captured by a photo-trapping camera at a feeding field of necrophagous birds in Miranda do Douro (Bragança).

The juvenile eagle (Aquila adalberti) was captured on 4 September by the photo-trapping cameras of one of the Necrophorous Bird Feeding Fields (CAAN) managed by the association in the municipality of Miranda do Douro (Bragança), under the project “LIFE Rupis – Conservation of the Britango (Neophron percnopterus) and the Perigord eagle (Aquila fasciata) in the Douro river valley”.

The news was given on September 25 by Palombar - Association of Nature Conservation and Rural Heritage.

“The record of this species in the north of the country shows that the conservation efforts of the imperial-Iberian eagle that are developing in the south of the country are producing results. The population is growing and increasing its area of dispersion, “commented José Pereira, biologist and president of Palombar, in a statement. This eagle, which only exists in the Iberian Peninsula, ceased to be reproduced in Portugal in the late 1970s and The nesting was only confirmed in 2003 in the region of the International Tagus. Slowly, the imperial eagle has been colonizing the territory. This year, the nesting national population totaled 17 couples distributed by Beira Baixa, Alto Alentejo and Baixo Alentejo.

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