| Legend has it that the lammergeier will sometimes dive at animals, even humans, trying to scare them into falling off the escarpment. |
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| The most sinister bird is the giant, vulture-like lammergeier that drools upon the banks. |
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| Yaks grazed along the shore, lammergeier vultures soared overhead, and a lone dog appeared and roamed far out on to the white ice. |
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| The Cretan mountains and gorges are refuges for the endangered lammergeier vulture. |
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| Situated in the Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime, it makes an ideal places for outings looking for wildlife, you can see chamois, ibex, marmots and the elusive lammergeier. |
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| An area of great biodiversity, it is essential territory for steppe eagles and lammergeier vultures, as well as many other rare and threatened birds, mammals, and plants. |
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| Overhead, hardy lammergeier vultures circle the fractured mountain peaks, where fault lines resemble the wrinkly, saggy skin on an old man's stumpy neck. |
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| Lackadaisical, Lenten-faced Lammergeier laying lethargic locomotion, lick-for-leather, lightning-before-death lingers. |
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