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• Legend has it that the lammergeier will sometimes dive at animals, even humans, trying to scare them into falling off the escarpment.
• The reserve is home to not only goats, red deer, and boars but also brown bears, chamois, lynx, roe deer, and wolves, as well as numerous eagles and large vultures called lammergeiers.
• Black vultures choose less precarious rocky perches on which to nest but join the lammergeiers on the thermals in their quest for food.
• However, the snow leopard is not the lone predator here, for the ecoregion harbors the Tibetan wolf (Canis lupus) and large avian predators such as the lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus) and golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), which soar high above the mountain peaks searching for colonial marmots (Marmota himalayana). Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
• The reserve is home to not only goats, red deer, and boars but also brown bears, chamois, lynx, roe deer, and wolves, as well as numerous eagles and large vultures called lammergeiers.
• Nest sites on high ledges, identified by white guano streaks on the cliff face, are home to lammergeiers that survive by picking on carcasses left by wolves or the harsh winters.
• The region was famed in the 1970s for its raptor population, with four vulture species, lammergeier Gypaetus barbatus, black Aegypius monachus, Griffon Gyps fulvus and Egyptian Neophron peranopterus; four eagle species, golden Aquila chrysaetos, short-toed Circaetus gallicus, booted Hieraeetus pennatus and Bonelli's Hieraeetus fasciatus and breeding lanner falcons Falco biarmicus. Meteora Group of Monasteries, Greece
• The most sinister bird is the giant, vulture-like lammergeier that drools upon the banks.
• There are 25 species of raptors including lammergeier Gypaetus barbatus and four other vultures. Simen National Park, Ethiopia
• There is also the phene (or lammergeier) and the vulture. The History of Animals