A peek inside the work-life of human keepers during the Bearded Vulture breeding season in captivity

The Bearded Vulture Captive Breeding Centre of Guadalentín is located in the province of Jaén, specifically in the Sierras de Cazorla Segura y Las Villas Natural Park privileged area at almost 1,300 meters of altitude. The first Bearded Vulture chick hatched in Guadalentín almost 20 years ago, specifically in February 2002. Today, 25 years after the Centre's establishment, a total of 102 chicks hatched and survived within this facility. Currently, Guadalentín produces the most chicks every year and specialises in adopting and raising chicks from other centres and zoos, making it the most significant Centre within the Bearded Vulture Captive Breeding Network, coordinated by us here at the Vulture Conservation Foundation (VCF) on behalf of EAZA's EEP (Bearded Vulture EEP). As of 2020, the VCF also assumed the management of Guadalentín on a two-year contract with the Junta de Andalucía, thus absorbing a valuable expert team on captive-breeding of this species.

Bearded Vultures naturally rear all the chicks produced within this Centre and the Bearded Vulture EEP to ensure they behave just like their wild conspecifics when they reach sexual maturity. These young vultures have very special purpose — they are either released into the wild to reintroduce Bearded Vulture populations or become part of the captive stock to eventually grow into healthy adults and produce chicks for conservation purposes.

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