Sentences with phrase «bearded vulture»

I would have loved to participate in the vulture trail to see the reintroduced bearded vulture of the Alps and some of these high mountain path wanderings from one mountain hut to the next over several days.

The 11 600 hectares of unique environment is true highland habitat, providing home to a variety of mammals including black wildebeest, eland, blesbok, oribi, springbok and Burchell's zebra — and birds, including the rare bearded vulture (lammergeier) and the equally rare bald ibis, which breed on the ledges in the sandstone cliffs.

A 2009 analysis of same - sex animal romance notes, among other things, that half of all sexual interactions by male bottlenose dolphins occur with male partners, and male - male pairings account for up to 26 percent of bearded vulture mountings.

These two guards of the Swiss National Parks Service are carrying young bearded vultures that they later released as part of a programme to reintroduce the birds to the Alps.

Although bearded vultures are not considered endangered worldwide, they have been almost completely extirpated from their historic central European range — the 125 breeding pairs in Spain are the result of 30 years of concerted repopulation efforts.

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Four species of European vulture are at risk, they note: the griffon, bearded, cinereous, and Egyptian.