By Rachael Risby Raz | International Relations Manager
In addition to its successful work with the endangered Griffon Vulture population in Israel, the National Center for Raptor Egg Incubation also serves a number of other raptor conservation projects.
Eggs of species such as the Lanner Falcon, the Lesser Kestrel, Bonelli’s Eagle, the Egyptian Vulture, the White-tailed Eagle and the Lappet-faced Vulture have also been incubated at the Center.
The population of Egyptian vultures has also dwindled by nearly 70 percent, and two other impressive species, the bearded vulture and the cinereous vulture, disappeared from the wild in Israel more than two decades ago.
As with many of the animals we have at the Biblical Zoo, the Egyptian Vulture (in Hebrew: Rehum) is mentioned in the Bible as part of a list of birds not to be eaten in the book of Leviticus (11:18)
Keep Warm,
Rachael and the Raptor Team
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