An Iberian golden eagle freed in Cádiz after being recovered from a shot in the Sierra Norte.

Technical experts of the environment council liberated in La Janda (Cádiz) an Iberian golden eagle specimen (Aquila adalberti) which was shot the last 11th of December in the municipality of Castilblanco de los Arroyos (Sevilla). The eagle, a three years old male, forms a part of the specimens group which has been released in La Janda, being a part of the specie Reintroduction project that the environment council carried out since 2002 with the collaboration of the Doñana Biological Station.
The wounded eagle was taken in by the Seprona until its admission in the Sevilla Threatened Species Recovery Centre, where the staff identified it as one of the birds of prey which were reintroduced by means of controlled breeding captivity techniques in the province of Cádiz in 2003. Although all of those eagles are equipped with two rings and with their radio-emitter which allows their monitoring, this specimen was devoid of its radio-emitter and one of its two rings; thanks to the one remaining technical experts could recognize it.

For the release, attended by the Cádiz Environment representative –Isabel Gómez-the eagle has been equipped with a new radio-monitoring device and new rings so that the Environment council technicians’ team could carry out a precise tracking in the next weeks in order to check its good adaptation to the natural environment.