Researchers recorded the first instance of captive breeding of the Himalayan vulture in India.

Researchers recorded the first instance of captive breeding of the Himalayan vulture in India: For the first time, captive breeding of the Himalayan vulture (Gyps himalayensis) occurred in India at the Assam State Zoo, Guwahati.

Himalayan vulture lives in the high Himalayas and migrates to the Indian plains in winter.

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Himalayan vulture generally breeds in snow-clad mountains. The details of successful breeding have been recently published in a paper titled ‘Breeding of Himalayan Vulture Gyps himalayensis Hume, 1869 (Aves: Accipitriformes: Accipitridae) in the Assam State Zoo, Guwahati, Assam, India’ in the Journal of Threatened Taxa.

As per this paper, the successful hatching was noted on 14 March 2022. The nestling was later shifted to the artificial brooding facility. The conservation breeding of the Himalayan vulture at the Guwahati Zoo is the second such instance in the world. Himalayan vulture is listed as ‘Near Threatened’ on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List.