I observed, as if from behind a blind, two magnificent lappet-faced vultures who were building a nest right in front of me.

The game park is also host to the globally threatened Lappet-faced Vulture.

The Lappet-faced Vulture's world population is believed to have decreased perceptibly.

Its closest living relative is probably the Lappet-faced Vulture, which takes live prey on occasion.

Lappet-faced Vultures come from southern and eastern Africa.

For instance, the Lappet-faced vulture has lappets of bare flesh on the sides of its head.

The Lappet-faced Vulture was formerly considered monotypical, but now is separated into two subspecies.

Lappet-faced Vultures are generally solitary birds.

Overall, the Lappet-faced Vulture is blackish above with a strongly contrasting white thigh feathers.

Lappet-faced Vultures are also sometimes victims of direct persecution, including shooting and the use of strychnine and other poisons.

White bellied bustards, fruit bats, klipspringers, and Lappet-faced vultures are found in smaller side exhibits in the area.

Perhaps more than any other true vulture, Lappet-faced Vultures have been recorded as regularly feeding on freshly killed smaller mammals, birds and reptiles.

ARKive - images and movies of the lappet-faced vulture (Torgos tracheliotos)

They are on average the largest raptor in Africa, although they are subservient to the powerful Lappet-faced Vulture.

Black down on head and bare blue-grey skin on head and neck, are good distinctions from Lappet-faced Vulture (p. 83).

Despite their size, power and adaptations, they are not the most dominant vulture in their range, which is considered to be the even larger Lappet-faced Vulture.

While flying, Lappet-faced Vultures have large, broad wings held with the front edges held parallel and slightly pointed, serrated-looking wingtips.

The Lappet-faced Vulture is a scavenging bird, feeding mostly from animal carcasses, which it finds by sight or by watching other vultures.

There is a single remarkable record of a Lappet-faced Vulture pair successfully raising a White-headed Vulture.

Shirihai, Hadoram (1987) Field characters of the Negev Lappet-faced Vulture, pp.

Lappet-faced Vulture - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

Both Griffon and Lappet-faced Vultures are strong, heavy-billed birds, capable of tearing open the hides of dead animals with ease.

A number of birds are found in the mountains including Egyptian Vulture and Lappet-faced Vulture (Torgos tracheliotus).

The bald head of the Lappet-faced Vulture is advantageous, because a feathered head would become spattered with blood and other fluids, and thus be difficult to keep clean.

Birds include including Marabou storks, Cape griffon vultures, lappet-faced vultures, wattled cranes, hammerkops and saddle-billed storks.

ARKive - images and movies of the lappet-faced vulture (Torgos tracheliotos)

The Lappet-faced Vulture or Nubian Vulture (Torgos tracheliotos) is a mostly African Old World vulture belonging to the bird order Accipitriformes, which also includes eagles, kites, buzzards and hawks.

The Cinereous Vulture is distinctly dark, with the whole body being dark brown excepting the pale head in adults, which is covered in fine blackish down, which is absent in the closely related Lappet-faced Vulture (Torgos tracheliotos).