Young saker falcons are only given food for a few months so they learn to hunt for themselves before being released. Over the past decade, Green Balkans, based in Stara Zagora, central Bulgaria, has been running a breeding programme with the aim of restoring saker falcon populations. “It showed that all the efforts had paid off.”A breeding pair of saker falcons. The university has run breeding and reintroduction programmes for saker falcons for decades, but in May they tried something new. For now, the global fate of the saker falcon still remains in the balance.

Source: The Guardian July 27, 2021 10:01 UTC