The Cinereous Vulture is believed to be the largest true bird of prey in the world.

In a few cases, Cinereous Vultures have been recorded as nesting directly on cliffs.

The Cinereous Vulture feeds on carrion of almost any type, from the largest mammals available to fish and reptiles.

Occasionally, the Cinereous Vulture has been recorded as preying on live prey as well.

The Cinereous Vulture is a Eurasian species.

Immature Cinereous Vultures have grey down on the head, a pale mauve cere and grey legs.

The combination of huge size and dark coloration renders the Cinereous Vulture relatively distinct, especially against smaller raptors such as eagles or hawks.

The Cinereous Vulture is a largely solitary bird, being found alone or in pairs much more frequently than most other Old World vultures.

In Europe, the Cinereous Vulture return to the nesting ground in January or February.

The Cinereous Vulture breeds in high mountains and large forests, nesting in trees or occasionally on cliff ledges.

Cinereous Vultures are generally very silent, with a few querelous mewing, roaring or guttural cries solely between adults and their offspring at the nest site.

Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus)

The Cinereous Vulture (which may overlap in range in the Arabian area) has a similar body shape but is all dark, with no contrasting plumage.

The park is involved in the International SSPs for Asian elephants, cheetahs, white rhinos, and cinereous vultures.

The Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus) is a large raptorial bird that is distributed through much of Eurasia.

There is a single case of a Spanish Imperial Eagle attacking and killing a Cinereous Vulture it an act of nest defense in Spain.

A series of photos taken recently show a Cinereous Vulture attacking a Himalayan Griffon in flight for unknown reasons, although the griffon was not seriously injured.

The largest Cinereous vultures exceed the weight and wingspan of the largest Himalayan Griffon, and the Cinereous is the larger species going on standard measurements.

In one case, a Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus), the largest living accipitrid, was observed to be pursued and kleptopararasitized by a Steller's Sea Eagle.

Juvenile and immature Cinereous Vultures, especially those in the northern stretches of the species range may move large distances across undeveloped open-dry habitats in response to snowfall or high summer temperatures.

A rare successful act of kleptoparasitism on a Cinereous Vulture was filmed in Korea when a Steller's Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) stole from a vulture.

After the Himalayan Griffon Vulture and the Cinereous Vulture the Cape vulture is the third largest Old World Vulture.

They are similar in size to the Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus), which has a slightly shorter overall length but in large specimens can weigh more than the Himalayan Vulture.

Although rarely observed in the act of killing ungulates, Cinereous Vultures have been recorded as flying low around herds and feeding on recently killed wild ungulates they are believed to have killed.

Also typical are the gallery forests shading the rivers of the range that provide a home to birds such as the Spanish Imperial Eagle, the Cinereous Vulture and the Black Stork.

The black vulture (Aegypius monachus) was next to disappear.

Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus)

The Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus) is a large raptorial bird that is distributed through much of Eurasia.

BLACK VULTURE Aegypius monachus.

Vultures (Eurasian black, Aegypius monachus; griffon, Gyps fulvus; Egyptian, Neophron percnopterus)

In one case, a Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus), the largest living accipitrid, was observed to be pursued and kleptopararasitized by a Steller's Sea Eagle.

Krumovitsa is one of the few places in Bulgaria where the Black Vulture Aegypius monachus and Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni still can be observed.

They are similar in size to the Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus), which has a slightly shorter overall length but in large specimens can weigh more than the Himalayan Vulture.

The Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus) is also known as the Black Vulture, Monk Vulture, or Eurasian Black Vulture.

At these higher altitudes Common Heather Calluna vulgaris is the dominant vegetation and the extreme isolation and remoteness is an ideal habitat for the Chamois Rupicapra rupicapra and birds such as the Red-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax and Cinereous Vulture Aegypius monachus.