Do conservation efforts pay off? Yes, they do.
Film comes from the European-based Vulture Conservation Foundation.
Since the film, more of these majestic animals have been released. Here are photos from the release on Friday, May 30:
Workers and volunteers from the Vulture Conservation Foundation, climbing the Alps to release to the wild another captive-raised bearded vulture. (We might assume the vulture is in the box.)
One must respect these volunteers, climbing such tors simply to watch a bird fly away.
The line of hiking Vulture Conservation Foundation volunteers stretched across an alpine mountain for a release on May 30, 2014.
You can tell
Not ready for his (her?) close up, this bearded vulture may be wildly happy, or sad to leave those who raised it. Vultures, it may be said, are often inscrutable. Vulture Conservation Foundation photos.
Tip of the old scrub brush to bird conservationist Amanda Holland.
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 