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The Mediterranean International Foundation for Biodiversity is carrying out an ambitious and demanding project: a census of the Egyptian vulture pairs still present in Sicily. It is an arduous undertaking, made difficult by this small vulture’s natural habit of nesting…

In 2025, after nearly 50 years of absence, the Egyptian Vulture (Capovaccaio), a small trans-Saharan migratory vulture, returned to nest in the Madonie, raising a young bird that fledged and migrated to Africa with its parents. In 2026 the adult…