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Common Names: Egyptian Vulture or 'Pharaoh's chicken'. (This bird has a long association with man and many drawings of it have been found on the walls of Egyptian tombs). ... The Egyptian Vulture has developed the ability to use an instrument and has become famed for its ability to open ostrich eggs using stones as missiles.
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www.vulture-territory.com/egyptian.html
www.vulture-territory.com/egyptian.html
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Diet/Feeding: Most well known for its evolved abiltity to eat eggs, the Egyptian vulture's diet also includes both carrion and overripe vegetable matter. When feeding with crows and small raptors, this vulture is dominant.
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vultures.homestead.com/Egyptian.html
vultures.homestead.com/Egyptian.html
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A relatively small vulture with the remarkable habit of using tools to break eggs. ... Egyptian vulture; Neophron percnopterus ... The Egyptian vulture is an unmistakable creamy white or buff vulture with a distinctive wedge-shaped white tail and black flight feathers, a bare yellow face and a slender bill.
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www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/3103.shtml
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The Egyptian vulture is a tool-using bird. It breaks eggs by dropping rocks on them. It finds an egg that it wants to eat, and then picks up a rock in its beak, stretches to its greatest height, and drops the rock.
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www.jimloy.com/egypt/vulture.htm
www.jimloy.com/egypt/vulture.htm
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Aasgier / Egyptische gier / Witkrenggier ... Accipitridae - Hawks, Eagles and Kites ... Aegypiinae - Vultures of the old world...
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home.hccnet.nl/r.goedegebuur/roofvog/aasgiere.html
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Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus ) ... Identification pretty certain, not least because the Egyptian word for vulture is nr-t. Nevertheless, D'Arcy Thompson opts for the equally common Griffin Vulture (Gyps fulvus).[1]
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www.willamette.edu/cla/classics/Aristophanes/EgyptianVu...
www.willamette.edu/cla/classics/Aristophanes/EgyptianVulture.html
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1992, Jenkins 1997). This single factor is probably the reason that most Egyptian Vulture sightings occur in Etosha where large herds living and dying under natural conditions still occur.
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www.nnf.org.na/RAPTORS/raptors_pges/egyptianvulture.htm
www.nnf.org.na/RAPTORS/raptors_pges/egyptianvulture.htm
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Eating habits of the Egyptian vulture include devouring dead animal substances. These scavenger birds also eat rats, mice and other creatures. The bird is one of the few animals to use tools. ... The Egyptian Vulture is one of thebest scavenger birds, not only devouring carcases of dead animals, but feeding on most types...
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www.thewonderofbirds.com/egyptian-vulture/eating.htm
www.thewonderofbirds.com/egyptian-vulture/eating.htm
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The Egyptian vulture will also eat flamingo eggs and chicks. ... Social System/Behavior: . Like the hooded vultures, the Egyptian vulture is a "clean feeder". It does not get covered with gore because it selects morsels from the remains of the kill.
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www.sensesofwildness.com/africa/2_6/06_04.HTM
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