One of a pair of young bearded vultures, a species which disappeared from Germany but was later reintroduced, has been found dead. Female bearded vulture pair Wally and Bavaria were released into the ...

Most creatures avoid bones because they’re hard to chew and digest. But there is one animal that has turned bones into its speciality — the Bearded Vulture, also called the Lammergeier. This ...

Many people have probably seen birds picking up small pieces of man-made materials, like strips of a plastic bag or paper litter, and taking them into their nest. This behavior appears to be fairly ...

Legend holds that the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus, fearing a prophecy that a falling object would kill him, spent an inordinate amount of time out in open spaces. So naturally an eagle picked ...

A species of vulture is making a grand recovery in the Alps, according to CNN. The bearded vulture was hunted to extinction in Europe due to fears that it was attacking livestock and even children. It ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It turns out the bearded vulture—also called the quebrantahuesos, or bonebreaker—isn’t just a carrion scavenger. It’s also a keen ...

In a hidden valley in the French Alps, conservationists are quietly raising Europe’s largest bird of prey – the bearded vulture – once wiped out from these mountains. After a century away, it is once ...

Researchers from various institutions, including the Institute for Game and Wildlife Research, the University of Granada, and the University of Cantabria in Spain, outlined their findings in the ...

The black kites that swarm over Switzerland's Lake Geneva are a dime a dozen. Sadly, the same can’t be said for a fellow raptor on the other side of the country that has come close to the brink of ...

This is the bearded vulture. It lives in the mountains so it can look down on us all. It smashes bones for a living. It encourages its children to fight to the death. And… it dyes its feathers. Why?

Decades ago, the biggest raptor in Europe—called the bearded vulture or the lammergeier—disappeared from the French Alps. But recently, the birds appeared again, flying high over the mountain range.

It turns out the bearded vulture—also called the quebrantahuesos, or bonebreaker—isn’t just a carrion scavenger. It’s also a keen collector of human ephemera. This habit has given researchers in ...