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bearded vulture

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noun

  1. another name for lammergeier

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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

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

He binds himself to one of the feet of a rukh, i.e. condor, or bearded vulture.

From The Book of Delight and Other Papers by Abrahams, Israel

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

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