bearded vulture
Britishnoun
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He embraced secular Zionism, helped found a kibbutz in his late teens and changed his name to Peres, Hebrew for a kind of bearded vulture.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2016
Birds of prey include the bearded vulture, aasvogel and several varieties of eagles, hawks, falcons and owls.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
The large bearded vulture is not only an uncompanionable fellow to look at, but he doesn't behave respectably.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Newnes, George
Lammergeier, lam′mėr-gī-ėr, n. the great bearded vulture of the mountains of southern Europe, Asia, and northern Africa.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Overhead the great L�mmergeier, or bearded vulture, sailed in graceful circles, while the big black raven croaked on the rocks by the camp.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth
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