Birds of prey Owls Lamellirostral birds Parrots Ostriches Order Galliformes Photos Site navigation For friends and sponsors News Information History Primates Ornithology Herbivora Predatory animals Herpetology Young Veterinary Children's page. Some vultures may be almost as large as condors, in particular, the black vulture.
Vultures inhabit mountainous regions of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa.
They are well-known to be social birds. Whenever a vulture comes across an accident of death, whether caused by disease, accident, fire or hunting, it quickly communicates it to other birds by performing peculiar manoeuvres in the air. Within a few minutes a great wheel of birds closes in on the target while new recruits keep arriving from all points of the compass. In our collection, vultures are represented by the black vulture, the griffon vulture, and the Egyptian vulture. Neither of them has yet bred, although all birds are mature enough.