Black vulture - Monniksgier in Oostvaardersplassen
Direct daarna liep de gier waggelend weg naar links om een minuut later stijgend weer in beeld te komen. Ik kon toen duidelijk de witte veren zien op de linker vleugel.
Ik kreeg toevallig vanavond door mijn broer Ruud onderstaande mail toegestuurd over deze monniksgier. Gelet op de witte veren op de linker vleugel moet dit deze vogel geweest zijn. Zij is dus vanuit de plek waar zij op 2 februari 2005 is losgelaten in Rhône-Alpes, France in anderhalve maand naar de OVP gevlogen.
Ik wil graag mijn collegas van Staatsbosbeheer feliciteren en ik hoop dat zulke majesteuze dieren van de robuuste ecosystemen vaker in dit gebied komen.
Hartelijke groet
Hans Kampf
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Black Vulture in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, an adult Eurasian Black Vulture Aegypius monachus rested in a field at Beers, Noord-Brabant, on 16-17 March; it was colour-ringed on the right leg (blue with white inscription CX), had four bleached remiges in the left wing and wore a radio transmitter in the tail from one of two re-introduction projects in France. It appeared to be a female Carmen picked-up alive but poisoned in the Extremadura, Spain, on 2 May 2003 which was first transported to Mallorca, Spain, on 15 July 2003 and then to Baronnies, Rhône-Alpes, France, on 7 April 2004 where it was released on 2 February and
disappeared in a fortnight.
From: Eurobirdnet Nederland: Vogels en vogelwaarnemingen in NL en omgeving
please see for more information: http://www.waarneming.nl/main.php
How a happy story ended in a sad one.
Info from Dutch Birding Association: http://www.dutchbirding.nl/
Eurasian Black Vulture of Spanish-French origin in the Netherlands in March-August 2005
On 16-17 March 2005, an adult Eurasian Black Vulture Aegypius monachus was observed near Beers, Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands. The bird was colour-ringed on the right leg (blue ring with white inscription CX) and wore an aluminium ring on the left leg. Four primaries and two secondaries in the left wing were bleached and it had a radio transmitter antenna in its tail. The same bird was briefly seen at Oostvaardersplassen, Flevoland, on 20 and 21 March 2005 and observed again by many birders from 31 March to 12 August. On 15 August, it was killed after a collision with a train.
The corpse was taken to the National Museum of Natural History - Naturalis at Leiden, Zuid-Holland. There, in a session open to press and public, the bird was dissected. The skin will be mounted and deposited in the collection of Naturalis. In the Oostvaardersplassen area, many carcasses of large herbivores were present after a period of strong cold and heavy snowfall in early March, providing ample food for the vulture. In June, the bird reportedly also fed on recently fledged Greylag Geese Anser anser, which it apparently killed itself.
The bird was traced as Carmen, a weakened, poisoned adult female brought into care in Extremadura, Spain, on 2 May 2003, taken to Mallorca, Spain, after recovery on 15 July 2003, and brought to Les Baronnies, Drôme, France (the second location in France where a reintroduction project for this species is operating) on 7 April 2004 with nine other Eurasian Black Vultures. It was released at Les Baronnies on 2 February 2005 and last seen in mid-February. The distance between Extremadura and Les Baronnies is c 1000 km; the flight distance from the re-introduction site to Beers in the Netherlands is c 800 km.
Although of presumed wild origin, it is questionable if the bird can be accepted as a genuine vagrant by the Dutch rarities committee (CDNA), given the fact that more than 50% of the travelled distance was covered involuntarily and not under its own steam.
Enno B Ebels, Joseph Haydnlaan 4, 3533 AE Utrecht, Nederland
(ebels@wxs.nl)