7 rare vulture species you might not know about. Bearded vulture: It is a very large bird of prey traditionally considered an Old World vulture. 16 Nov, 2024. Tahir Qureshi.

The bird, more used to the Alps, has ended up on the Derbyshire-Yorkshire border.

A Cape Vulture spreads its wings as it flies low at the VulPro Vulture Rehabilitation Centre in Hartebeepoortdam in the Magalisburg region, September 15, 2015. A Cape Vulture spreads its wings as ...

The bearded vulture, or lammergeier, is one intense bird. It lives on a steady diet of bones and dyes its feathers blood red, giving it the reputation of one of the most metal birds in the animal ...

This is the bearded vulture. It lives in the mountains so it can look down on us all. It smashes bones for a living. It encourages its children to fight ...

Bearded vultures breed in winter and, while they lay two eggs, only a single chick is raised. These biologically redundant second eggs can be carefully harvested and the chicks raised by ...

Wally, one of a pair of young bearded vultures — a species that disappeared from Germany 100 years ago but was later reintroduced — has been found dead.

Mr Birch said the bearded vulture fed mainly on bones from carcasses, very rarely on live prey, and could swallow bones whole, which were dissolved in its stomach. Indy Kiemel Greene.

The bearded vulture is critically endangered, prompting several organisations, including traditional healers, to do all they can to ensure the survival of the species. Picture: Supplied.

He added the only other bearded vulture ever recorded in the UK was in 2016, around Dartmoor. Image source, Tim Birch. Image caption, ...