Bearded Vulture

The Bearded Vulture is a huge mountain raptor with long, narrow wings, a wedge-shaped tail and a distinctive dark feathered 'beard' below the bill. Adults combine dark wings with a pale head and underparts that are often stained rusty orange. Unlike many familiar vultures, the neck is fully feathered. It is the sole living member of the genus Gypaetus and belongs to a small accipitrid lineage allied with the Egyptian Vulture rather than to the core Old World vultures. (Wikipedia, general species account)

Bones form roughly 70–90 percent of the Bearded Vulture's diet, an exceptional specialisation among vertebrates. Large bones are carried aloft and dropped onto rocky breaking sites, after which the bird swallows the fragments and marrow. It nests on inaccessible mountain crags, with females laying one or two eggs during winter. The range is scattered across highlands in southern Europe, Africa and Asia, including the Altai, Himalayas and mountains of western and central China. (Wikipedia, general species account)