"It is nothing short of a (pleasant) surprise…that the Egyptian vulture (pictured next page, Photo: Wikipedia) is successfully breeding within a human habitation in Punjab and, more importantly, has become a resident species,” T. K. Roy, an ecologist and Delhi State coordinator at the Asian Waterbird Census, told The Hindu. The newspaper was reporting on July 7, 2017 on the breeding of the rare and threatened Egyptian vultures in a human habitat at the Punjabi University campus in Patiala.
"Within a two-year period, between summer-monsoon 2015 and summer-monsoon 2017, its (the specie’s) population has increased from one breeding pair to eight individuals......