‘Spy vulture’ from Israel captured in south Lebanon

According to UPI.com, a local resident of the Lebanese town of Bint Jbail became suspicious after he spotted a tracking device attached to the bird.

In 2011 Saudi media reported that a vulture carrying a Global Positioning System transmitter and an identification ring from Tel Aviv University had been detained by security forces who suspected it was being used for espionage.

Officials from the Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA) said they hoped the bird was released, and would make its way back to the reserve.

The vulture accused of being an Israeli “spy”.

Tenenbaum said that in their regular monitoring of the bird’s movements the authority’s experts had been aware for some days that it had flown about four kilometres (2.5 miles) into Lebanon.

“We hope that the Lebanese will take care of him and release him”, avian ecologist Ohad Hatzofe told the Jerusalem Post.

A vulture that was being detained in Lebanon on suspicion it was spying for Israel has been set free.

It’s not easy for wild animals in the region when they cross the region’s hostile borders.

The vulture, also known as the Eurasian griffon, arrived from Catalonia in July 2015, and was released onto the Israeli Gamla Nature Reserve roughly a month ago, officials said.

This vulture is the latest animal suspected of espionage in the fog of mistrust and conspiracy that typifies Israel’s relationship with the rest of the Middle East. Last year, Hamas apprehended a “Zionist spy dolphin” off the coast of Gaza.

In 2010, Israel dismissed Egyptian claims that its intelligence agency Mossad was behind a series of shark attacks in the Red Sea meant to damage Egypt’s tourism industry, according to the BBC.