The bearded vulture can swallow whole or bite through brittle bones up to the size of a lamb's femur [38] and its powerful digestive system quickly dissolves even large pieces. Their favoured variants of bones to consume consist of fattier and elongated bones like tarsal bones and tibias.

The bearded vulture is an enormous, majestic scavenger with a peculiar diet, mostly feeding on the bones of dead animals. They are one of the largest birds of prey, larger than a golden eagle in size – and are the Alps largest bird.

The very features that make Bearded Vultures efficient bone-eaters—including flat feet and dull talons designed to help them walk around carrion to pluck out bones rather than tear into flesh—also make them poor predators.

2014年8月13日 · The bearded vulture, or lammergeier, is one intense bird. It lives on a steady diet of bones and dyes its feathers blood red, giving it the reputation of one of the most metal birds in the animal...

Its preference for bone (including bleached bone from carcasses stripped months before) makes the bearded vulture uniquely suited to surviving harsh conditions. In fact, winter is the best time for this bone-eating bird!

2024年9月6日 · These vultures turn their feathers red on purpose, covering themselves in iron oxide by bathing in rusty water or rubbing themselves with damp red soil.

The Bearded Vulture is the only vulture that has specialized in the processing bones of dead animals. This special diet requires many adaptations and therefore the Bearded Vulture differs to other vulture species in many aspects.