What is a bearded vulture?

Bearded Vulture is the common name of the bird Gypaetus barbatus . This vulture is the only member of her family and differs from other vultures in that instead of playing at carcasses of dead animals, up to 90 percent of their diet relies on bone marrow. All vultures are generally gadgets, they are feeding carrion rather than living prey; As a result, the name of the bearded vulture gradually lost the currency, because this fact became better known. A bearded vulture is a large bird - adults can reach a length of 50 inches (about 127 cm), while the wingspan is close to 10 feet (about 3.05 m). Adult weights usually range from £ 10 to 17 (about 4.54 to 7.71 kg).

To be difficult to extract from the bones, the bearded vulture will drop them from a considerable height on the rocks below. Up to 30 such drops can be required before breaking the bone and revealing marrow inwards, which the SUP then discards a narrow, high -resistant language. These vultures were even seen that they drop live turtles to crawl openshells. This habit gave the vulture his former common name Ossifrage, which means bone circuit breaker. It was also known as Lammergeier, which means lamb and people, because people believed that they attacked young sheep and other pets were also known to eat after sheep birth.

Although almost all vultures are bald, a bearded vulture has a rusty buff on his head and a black "mustache" on his face, a source of his scientific name-Barbatus means "beard" in Latin. Thanks to the large and narrow wing, its load-wing-meter-meter and wing shape to the body weight I do from the ratio of other vultures, as well as its long, wedge tail feathers. Individuals survived up to 40 years.

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bearded vulture dates back to Central and Northern Europe to the Mediterranean, with a limited number in North Africa and Central Asia. Although some agencies do not consider themselves an immediate risk of extinction, itBirds' conservationists are afraid of a declining number of breeding pairs - in certain parts of its extent there are less than 50 breeding pairs. The native vulture habitat is located in the mountains between 1600 and 13 000 feet (about 487.68 to 3.96 km). Rare individuals were seen up to 24,000 feet (about 7.32 km).

by mid -December to mid -February, one and sometimes two eggs, which are a female woman and hatch in about 53 days. The chickens are fed by both parents. Soldered couples will usually prevent their large breeding areas, which can be up to 240 square miles (about 622 square km), against their own species.