The intervention, last Sunday, after the report of a tourist
CERESOLE REALE – On Sunday 27 June the park rangers of the Gran Paradiso were the protagonists of the recovery of an adult specimen of golden eagle in Ceresole Reale. Following a telephone call from a tourist, the park ranger Raffaella Miravalle and the head of the Valle Orco service, Piero Chabod, reached Chiapili Inferiore, where the eagle was found, resting on a rock near the ski lift. , visibly injured and unable to take flight.
The park ranger Miravalle together with an acquaintance, thanks also to the support of some people on site who cautiously approached the eagle from the front to attract its attention, slowly approached it from the back, quickly immobilizing it in the sheets. The animal, weak and frightened, did not resist. After being made safe, the eagle was transported by the veterinarian Michel Mottini to the Mont Emilius Veterinary Clinic, which has an agreement with the Valle d’Aosta Autonomous Region for this type of intervention.
The conditions of the eagle were very precarious, the bird of prey had a wound on the left wing, symptoms of weakness, wasting, hypothermia and dehydration with hypothetical signs of saturnism, lead poisoning is in fact one of the main causes of death in this species. It will therefore be necessary to wait for clinical investigations to know if the animal will recover and if a subsequent release in the wild will be possible. The recovery of a wounded specimen of eagle by the Gran Paradiso park guards is the second in a few months, in February another was saved in Valsavarenche, which, after being treated, returned to fly in the skies of the protected area at the end of March.
(The photo is by Pierluigi Cullino)