The Lammergeier, also known as the bearded vulture, is no ordinary bird. With a massive wingspan and a fiery, red-tinted appearance, this vulture doesn’t just scavenge—it thrives on bones.

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 It is thought ...

Thus, in the 1970s, biologists from the Frankfurt Zoological Society and elsewhere decided to try to reestablish a bearded vulture population in the Alps by introducing captive-bred birds into the ...

Unlike most clean-faced vultures, the bearded vulture sports a stylish black tuft ... Instead, they search for carcasses and pick out bones. The scavengers drop femurs and other large bones ...