Abstract

A second-calendar-year Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus spent nearly four months in England in 2020, and settled in the Peak District for several weeks in the summer. DNA analysis of feathers collected from a preening site on 30th August revealed that the bird fledged from a French territory in the Bargy Massif, in the Haute-Savoie region of the northwest Alps, on 6th July 2019. Its parents were a wild-hatched male that fledged from the same area, and a female reared in La Garenne Zoo in Switzerland and released as a fledgling in 2006 in Italy.