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lappet-faced vulture

  1. Sharing a meal!

    Sharing a meal!

    A Lappet-faced Vulture and a White-backed Vulture sharing a meal
  2. Lappet-faced Vulture

    Lappet-faced Vulture

  3. Lappet-faced Vulture

    Lappet-faced Vulture

    Landing gear down! Note the diagnostic white down on its patiagium and leggings. This huge vulture is in its own genus although sometimes included in "Aegypius" and its specific epithet sometimes misspelled "tracheliotus."It is considered endangered by IUCN with the main threats being accidental...
  4. the boss

    the boss

    they all play second fiddle to the lappets, even white-backs, not least because they need him to open up the carcass ! Another lock-down archive shot....
  5. Lappet-faced Vulture

    Lappet-faced Vulture

  6. Lappet-faced Vulture ETH SER

    Lappet-faced Vulture ETH SER

    This vulture was feeding on carrion in competition with a flock of Fan-tailed Ravens. The carrion was on a ledge below the rim of Gemma Gorge.
  7. Lappet-faced Vulture

    Lappet-faced Vulture

    One of many varied vultures and Marabou Storks around a carcass. Like the stance showing off the plumage.
  8. Lappet-faced Vulture

    Lappet-faced Vulture

    Expect his Mum loves him
  9. Lappet-faced Vulture

    Lappet-faced Vulture

    Early morning and unbothered by us; no thermals
  10. Lappet-faced Vulture

    Lappet-faced Vulture

  11. Hades!

    Hades!

    ............the dark lord of the Underworld rules over the dead. The Lappet-faced or Nubian Vulture rules over all other vultures at the carcase. With a massive meat-cleaver bill it possesses the ability to open up a carcase or strip sinew from bone. As well as scavenging they have also been...
  12. Lappet-faced Vuture

    Lappet-faced Vuture

    A powerful bird with a large strong beak shaped like a meat-cleaver. This vulture has the ability to cut through hide to open up the carcase which then allows the long-necked Gyps vultures access to the muscle & internal organs. This is a youngish bird -adults have uniform pale horn-coloured...
  13. Lappet-faced Vulture

    Lappet-faced Vulture

    Flying to carcass
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