Currently Six Bearded Vulture Couples in Tyrol Confirmed

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Elisabeth Weninger has been Tirol's bearded vulture manager for more than a year. She informs about the animal and knows where and how many animals are currently living in Tyrol. Sightings can also be reported online. Elisabeth Weninger has been a bearded vulture manager in Tyrol for a year now. The establishment of a competence centre for monitoring rare birds in the Ötztal Nature Park is already bearing fruit: three new breeding pairs were con…

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Last year, two new breeding pairs were recorded in the Kaunertal and Paznauntal and another pair were confirmed in the Lechtal.

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In Nordtirol there are currently six confirmed bearded vulture breeding pairs. In 2024 alone three new breeding pairs were added, reported on Saturday Tyrol's bearded vulture manager Elisabeth Weninger in a dispatch of the country. According to estimates, 300 to 400 of the rare and strictly protected birds live in the whole Alpine region, according to Weninger. From the early 20th century the bearded vulture was considered extinct in the region,…