.dropcap { color: #838078; float: left; font-size: 82px; line-height: 60px; padding: 5px 8px 0 0; } .art-aside-tmp { height: auto !important; min-height: auto !important; } Obwaldera is late. In less than 48 hours, scientists are scheduled to release the three-month-old Bearded Vulture on a Swiss Alps mountainside, along with a second chick named Marco. Raised in different captive breeding centers, the birds were carefully chosen—based on their DNA—to join one of the most highly managed wildlife populations in Europe. The hope is that they will both survive to adulthood, find mates, and raise chicks of their own, helping to ensure the long-term survival of the continent’s rarest vulture. But while Marco arrived from Estonia without incident, Obwaldera and her two human escorts got hung up at the Austria-Switzerland border. They’re still several hours away, and the narrow window to prepare the young vulture to be set free is closing. Scientists...