#0862 · 🐦 birds

Bearded Vulture

🇳🇱 Lammergier ·Gypaetus barbatus

NTnear threatened 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © petermcintyre · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Davide Diana · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Davide Diana · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Joachim S. Müller · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © aep-prina · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Chiapili, 10080 Ceresole reale TO, Italia:© Davide Diana · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Казбековский р-н, Респ. Дагестан, Россия:© Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Chiapili, 10080 Ceresole reale TO, Italia:© Davide Diana · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Chiapili, 10080 Ceresole reale TO, Italia:© Davide Diana · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The bearded vulture ( Gypaetus barbatus ), also known as the lammergeier or ossifrage , is a bird of prey and the only member of the genus Gypaetus . Traditionally considered an Old World vulture, it actually forms a minor lineage of Accipitridae together with the Egyptian vulture ( Neophron percnopterus ), its closest living relative. It is not much more closely related to the Old World vultures proper than to, for example, hawks, and differs from the former by its feathered...

base stats

NL sightings 9iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,286iNaturalist observations
weight 6.2 kgadult, up to
threat NTnear threatened

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).