WILDLIFE officials were overjoyed at the arrival of the first red-headed vulture chick at Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary after becoming extinct in the wild for over 30 years, Thai Rath newspaper said this morning (Feb. 10).
Mr. Atthaphon Charoenchansa, head of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, said he got a report from Mr. Permsak Kanitchat, head of Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary in Uthai Thani Province, on the success of restoring red-headed vulture population in the wild.
A male red-headed vulture named “Pok” was brought from Korat Zoo to mate with “Ming” a female vulture of the same species that was already at this wildlife sanctuary.
They started mating on May 23, 2023 until Ming laid her first egg which has now hatched with the chick being the first birth in its original habitat in over three decades.
This five-year project, a collaboration by the Zoological Organization of Thailand, the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, Kasetsart University and Seub Nakhasathien Foundation, started on Oct. 1, 2020 and runs till Sept. 30, 2025.
This is an Old World vulture mainly found in the Indian subcontinent with small disjunct populations in some parts of Southeast Asia, according to Wikipedia.
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Top and Front Page: Ming the female red-headed vulture with her egg that has now hatched. Photos: Thai Rath
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