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Creature Feature: The Bearded Vulture
Yes, I know, I’ve already written about vultures here. But I wanted to give a shoutout to my favourite bird of all time: the lammergeier, or bearded vulture! This massive bird of prey with a 7-9ft wingspan lives in mountainous regions such as Africa, southern Europe and Tibet. Lammergeiers are Old World vultures, which means…
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Nature’s Clean-Up Crew: An Ode to Vultures
Winged heralds of death and decay, they say, circling the skies in a halo of doom. When it comes to judging a book by its cover, vultures have it the worst. They’re nature’s clean-up crew, tidying up the messes that would otherwise fester and rot in the sun. Their stomachs kill diseases from prey that…