Bearded vulture
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| phylum | Chordata | The Bearded Vulture, also known as the Lammergeier or Lammergeyer, is a bird of prey, and the only member of the genus Gypaetus. It is not much more closely related to the Old World vultures proper than to, for example, hawks, and differ from the former by their feathered neck.
It eats mainly carrion and lives and breeds on crags in high mountains in southern Europe, the Caucasus, Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, and Tibet, laying one or two eggs in mid-winter which hatch at the beginning of spring. Populations are resident. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Gypaetinae |
| clade | Diapsida | |
| Class | Aves | |
| order | Accipitriformes | |
| family | Accipitridae | |
| genus | Gypaetus | |
| species | G. barbatus |
