Bearded vulture
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The bearded vulture, also known as the lammergeier and ossifrage, is a very large bird of prey in the monotypic genus Gypaetus. The bearded vulture is the only known vertebrate whose diet consists of
010e Wild Bearded Vulture in flight at Pfyn Finges Photo by Giles Laurent
Front view of head, at the Mykolaiv Zoo in Ukraine
Skeleton, at the Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa
Bearded vulture in the Pyrenees, Spain
Old World vulture
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Old World vultures are vultures that are found in the Old World, i.e. the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and which belong to the family Accipitridae, which also includes eagles, buzzards, kite
Bearded vulture
…prey in the monotypic genus Gypaetus. The bearded vulture is the only known vertebrate whose diet consists of 70–90% bone. Traditionally considered an Old World vulture, it actually forms a separate minor lineage of Accipitridae together with the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus), its closest living relative…
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