Bearded vulture: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the bearded vulture lives – recorded in 25 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Gypaetus barbatus
Group	Birds of prey
Status	Near threatened (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	25 countries
Continents	Africa, Asia, Europe
Mass	224 g (birth weight); 4.91 kg (male organism, adult weight); 6.17 kg (female organism, adult weight)
Diet (main food)	bone marrow
Class	Bird
Order	Accipitriformes
Family	Accipitridae

Where does the bearded vulture live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the bearded vulture in 25 countries and territories across Africa, Asia and Europe. Wikidata gives its range as: Africa.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a bearded vulture?

Wikidata records the following for the bearded vulture: mass 224 g (birth weight); 4.91 kg (male organism, adult weight); 6.17 kg (female organism, adult weight).

What does a bearded vulture eat?

Wikidata lists the main food source of the bearded vulture as: bone marrow.

Is the bearded vulture endangered?

The bearded vulture’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Near threatened” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the bearded vulture?

The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) is a bird in the order Accipitriformes and the family Accipitridae, genus Gypaetus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the bearded vulture

The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), also known as the lammergeier and ossifrage, is a very large bird of prey in the monotypic genus Gypaetus. The bearded vulture is the only known vertebrate whose diet consists of 70–90% bone.

Traditionally considered an Old World vulture, it actually forms a separate minor lineage of Accipitridae together with the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus), its closest living relative. It is not much more closely related to the Old World vultures proper than to, for example, hawks, and differs from the former by its feathered neck. Although dissimilar, the Egyptian and bearded vulture each have a lozenge-shaped tail—unusual among birds of prey. It is vernacularly known as Homa, a bird in Iranian mythology.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Bearded vulture (revision 1381015169), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q126167 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).