The adventures of a young eagle-owl in Collserola

This bird, named Piju, is not even three months old yet. The young eagle-owl was found in a path in Sant Cugat del Vallès and came back to its natural habitat throughout an operation in which the Conservation Biology Group of the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute of the University of Barcelona (IRBio) had a determining role. 

 

The story of this young bird, from the Bubo bubo species, started on April 3, when a man who was walking around found it malnourished and weak in the middle of a footpath in Sant Cugat del Vallès. Thanks to citizen collaboration, this 40-day old bird was brought to the Centre de Fauna de Torreferrusa of Generalitat de Catalunya, in Santa Perpètua de la Mogoda, where it was assisted by veterinarians and experts.

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