bearded vulture
lammergeier , auch: lammergeyer
ossifrage
Gypaetus barbatus latin

Until the early 20th century, the bearded vulture was also present.

The park is home to a dazzling array of birds, including the golden eagle and the bearded vulture.

The Bearded Vulture is sparsely distributed across a considerable range.

Unlike most vultures, the Bearded Vulture does not have a bald head.

Bearded Vulture is considered a threatened species in Iran.

Also, it is home to the last breed of Bearded Vulture a vital ecological catalyst.

'The bearded vulture is the one on the far right-hand side of the round,' said Stephen.

The former extinct bearded vulture and the Alpine marmot have been successfully reintroduced.

Bearded Vultures are variably orange or rust on their head, breast and leg feathers but this is actually cosmetic.

A bearded vulture!

It is a bearded vulture!'

Live prey is sometimes attacked by the Bearded Vulture, with perhaps greater regularity than any other vulture.

The Bearded Vulture occupies an enormous territory year-around.

The Bearded Vulture is locally threatened.

These very large birds are also known as Bearded Vultures for they have very noticeable, rather comical goatees.

This eagle on rare occasions may pirate food from other raptors, including Bearded Vulture and other eagles.

Many large animals killed by Bearded Vultures are unsteady young, have appeared sickly or are obviously injured.

In the Ethiopian Highlands only, Bearded Vultures have adapted to living largely off of human refuse.

The renowned Lammergeyer Hide is open for visitors to watch bearded vultures and other endangered bird species.

Giants Castle Game Reserve is considered the home of the eland as well as the bearded vulture.

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, bearded vultures now lack the genetic diversity to evolve effectively through natural selection or genetic drift.

Isolated is what you'll be apart from the prolific birdlife (including the bearded vulture) and the odd rhebok.

Although dissimilar, Egyptian and Bearded Vultures both have a lozenge-shaped tail that is unusual among birds of prey.

When killing tortoise, Bearded Vultures also fly to some height and drop them to crack open the bulky reptiles' hard shells.

Most magnificent of all is the Lammergeier (Bearded Vulture) with a 3 metre wingspan.

Some authorities think this a good description of a lammergeier; others do not.

Taxonomic confusion may have resulted from the physical appearance of the Lammergeier.

A black speck appeared high in the sky; grew fast - the lammergeier.

Birdwatching is also popular, with the lammergeier and golden eagle especially sought for.

Iranian mythology considers the rare Lammergeier the symbol of luck and happiness.

The cliffs on the side of the gorge provide a roosting site for the Lammergeier vulture.

The Lammergeier and the Golden Eagle are common raptors here.

However, this term referred to the Lammergeier.

Large raptors include the black vulture and the huge lammergeier, both of which can be spotted in remote mountain areas.

We saw many birds, including a lammergeier, a type of vulture with an enormous wingspan, that soared overhead.

The Lammergeier eats bones, and will drop them on to rocks from a great height in order to break them down to a digestible size.

The two parks are important areas for ibexes, chamois, and golden eagles; the lammergeier was recently reintroduced into the area.

A lammergeier swooped down on wide funereal wings; it peered at us; darted away toward the cliffs.

The Cretan mountains and gorges are refuges for the endangered Lammergeier vulture.

Because the head of the Lammergeier, unlike most other vultures, is feathered rather than naked, it bears a resemblance to the eagle or condor.

Most magnificent of all is the Lammergeier (Bearded Vulture) with a 3 metre wingspan.

The lammergeier, red-billed chough and tahr live in the highest Himalayas.

The eponymous mountains of the park are inhabited by the magnificent Lammergeier, or Bearded Vulture.

Lammergeier in the Alps (successful) Switzerland (successful)

More than 50 species of birds inhabit the park, including the impressive bearded vulture, or lammergeier, with its 10-foot (3m) wingspan.

ARKive - video of Lammergeier shattering bones into smaller pieces which it then feeds on.

The valley is named after the Lammergeier, which is called Yol in Mongolian.

The star of the season's opening edition of "Nature" is a rare carrion-eating combination of the vulture and the eagle called the lammergeier.

Large, short-tailed (except Lammergeier), birds of prey, their long broad wings, with a span of 5-9 ft, highly adapted to soaring.

Magda said briefly, in Terran Standard, "Lammergeier.

The encoded message says: "The magic words are squeamish ossifrage."

Its old name of Ossifrage ("bone breaker") relates to this habit.

The 1993-1994 effort began the tradition of using the words "squeamish ossifrage" in cryptanalytic challenges.

And the wild salt geese streamed among the pale towers, and after them the ossifrage and the lammergeir.

When decrypted using the factorization the message was revealed to be "The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage".

In April 1984, Michael co-authored The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage.

In the Bible/Torah, the bearded vulture, as the ossifrage, is among the birds forbidden to be eaten (Leviticus 11:13).

In April 1994, he co-authored the paper The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage detailing the factorization of RSA-129.

Ossifrage is an older name for the Lammergeier, a scavenging vulture that is famous for dropping animal bones and live tortoises onto rocks to crack them open.

The text "The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage" was the solution to a challenge ciphertext posed by the inventors of the RSA cipher in 1977.

First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage.

At last, when the golden leaves fell from the sycamores (even as the gold manufactured by magicians falls at last from the hands of men), and the gray salt geese streamed among the pale towers of the city with the lammergeir and the ossifrage screaming after them, the youths set sail.

The same chapter also counsels against eating the eagle, the ossifrage, the ospray, the glede, the kite, and the vulture after his kind, not to mention the owl, the night hawk, the cuckow, the pelican, the swan, the gier eagle, the cormorant, the lapwing, and the bat.

Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus)

The major wildlife is Lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus) which are often seen squatting in large groups beside the road.

Lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus)

Other fauna associated with the site included the now rare Lammergeyer or Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus).

The Lammergeyer Hide is the best place to see the rare lammergeier, also known as the bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus).

Along with its nearest evolutionary relative, the Lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus), they are sometimes placed in a separate subfamily, the Gypaetinae.

There is at least one recorded instance of Himalayan Vultures using a nest made by Bearded Vultures (Gypaetus barbatus).

The Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus) and the Lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus) are true carrion-eating vultures.

The Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), also known as the Lammergeier or Lammergeyer, is a bird of prey, and the only member of the genus Gypaetus.

The protected area of the Samaria Gorge is the home of kri-kri, while Cretan mountains and gorges are refugees for the endangered vulture Lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus).

There are many protected animal species, like the Capercaillie, the Lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus), the Cantabrian brown bear and the Iberian Wolf (Canis lupus signatus).

LAMMERGEIER or BEARDED VULTURE Gypaetus barbatus.

There have been witnessed accounts of Bearded Vultures (Gypaetus barbatus) and Spanish Imperial Eagles (Aquila adalberti) attempting to kill nestlings but in both cases were chased off by the parent vultures.

Some of the most important ones are capercaillie "Tetrao urogallus", Rock Ptarmigan "Lagopus muta", Golden eagle "Aquila chrysaetos", Griffon Vulture "Gyps fulvus" or Bearded Vulture "Gypaetus barbatus".

Among all other birds, the only other species confirmed to hunt vertebrates in this way is the Lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus) which also uses the technique when it hunts tortoises (parallel to the way the latter species cracks open ungulate bones to access marrow).