Endangered Egyptian vulture reappears at Friuli nature reserve

ROME – Sources recently said that Europe’s most at risk vulture has reappeared in a Friuli nature reserve.

The Egyptian vulture, which is the most at risk of extinction on the continent as well as Europe’s smallest, is back nesting in the Cornino Lake Reserve.

Nature experts and park officials said it had come from Spain.

“There are now fewer than 3,000 pairs of Egyptian vulture, over half of which are found in the Iberian Peninsula,” said the reserve’s scientific director, Fulvio Genero.

In Italy, only a dozen or so pairs remain, mostly concentrated in Sicily.