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News Archive
Below are the news reports for The Hawk Conservancy Trust, covering significant events concerning the animal collection, such as births, arrivals, departures, and deaths.
The Hawk Conservancy Trust Details
Birth: February 2010
An African White-Backed Vulture chick called Picardi has hatched.
Arrival: 20 April 2009
Great Bustards have arrived, to take up residence in the UK's only Great Bustard aviary.
Arrival: January 2007
Twenty African vultures, of three different species (African White-backed, Hooded, and White-headed) have arrived from Rome Zoo, following the interception by Italian authorities of an illegal consignment of 260 vultures. The UK (and the Hawk Conservancy in particular) is the first foreign country to be selected to take some of these birds out of Italy as part of the re-homing programme by CITES and EAZA. Rome Zoo has been looking after the birds until new homes are found for them across Europe.
Notes:
Where possible, the dates given are for the event itself, but some zoos do not make this information available, when the date of announcement is used instead.
Seasons: Winter = Jan - Mar, Spring = Apr - Jun, Summer = Jul - Sept, Autumn = Oct - Dec.
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