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lammergeier

Old World vulture with a wingspan of 2.7 m/9 ft. It ranges over southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia, in wild mountainous areas. It feeds on offal and carrion and drops bones onto rocks to break them and so get at the marrow. (Species Gypaetus barbatus, family Accipitridae.)

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European fauna			Take the Bearded Vulture, which was hunted almost to extinction in the 1800s because it was thought to feed on domestic animals. Hiking in Italy's Western Alps by Vigi Floyd / Travel, recreation and leisure community The series also looks at the extraordinary array of wildlife which lives around the river, from the Asiatic brown bears, snow leopards and bearded vultures which have made their home in the mountains, to the wild elephants that live in the foothills, to the mahseer, the largest freshwater fish in the world, that swim in its waters. Life alongside a sacred river; TV Choice by Birmingham Mail (England) High in the skies, lammergeyer - bearded vultures - ride the air currents, taking marrow-filled bones up into the sky before dropping them and smashing them on the ground below, exposing the juicy marrow. Heart of the world; Wild Africa BBC2, 9.00pm by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)			Beale, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Mary beam balance beam engine beam weapon Beaminster Beamish, Sally Beamon, Bob bean Bean, ‘Judge’ Roy Bean, Alan LaVern Bean, L L Bean, Sean bear bear market Bear, Great and Little bearbaiting Bearbeitung bearberry Beard, ‘Uncle Dan’ Beard, Charles Austin Beard, James Beard, John Beard, Mary Ritter bearded collie bearded vulture Bearden, Romare Beardon, Romare Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent bearer bond bearing Béarn Béart, Emmanuelle Beas Beast, Great Beastie Boys, the beat beat frequency Beat Generation beat music beatification Beatitudes Béatitudes, Les Beatles, the Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, David Beatrice Beatrice di Tenda Béatrice et Bénédict Beatrix Beatrix Cenci			bearded lizard bearded lizards bearded lizards bearded needle Bearded oyster Bearded oyster Bearded oyster Bearded oyster Bearded people Bearded people Bearded people Bearded people Bearded Pig Bearded Reedling bearded reedlings Bearded saki bearded seal bearded seal bearded the lion in his den bearded the lion in his den bearded the lion in his den bearded the lion in his den bearded the lion in his lair bearded the lion in his lair bearded the lion in his lair bearded the lion in his lair Bearded tit Bearded Titmouse bearded tits Bearded tortoise bearded vulture bearded vultures bearded vultures bearded wheatgrass Bearden Bearden, Romare Bearden, Romare Beardie beardies bearding bearding bearding bearding bearding bearding line bearding the lion in his den bearding the lion in his den bearding the lion in his den bearding the lion in his den bearding the lion in his lair bearding the lion in his lair bearding the lion in his lair bearding the lion in his lair beardless beardless beardless beardless beardless beardless iris Beardlessness Beardlessness

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lammergeier (redirected from bearded vulture)

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