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Most at risk vulture reappears in Friuli reserve

Only dozen pairs remain in Italy says Lake Cornino director

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(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 1 - Europe's most at risk vulture has reappeared in a Friuli nature reserve, sources said at the weekend.
    The Egyptian vulture, which is the most art 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.
    The reserve's scientific director, Fulvio Genero, said: "there are now fewer than 3,000 pairs of Egyptian vulture, over half of which are found in the Iberian Peninsula. In Italy, on the other hand, only a dozen or so pairs remain, mostly concentrated in Sicily. (ANSA).
   

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