ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
THE KITES, BUZZARDS, EAGLES, HAWKS, AND ALLIES
Black Vulture
The Griffon Vultures,
of which the Common Griffon (Gyps fulvus) may be taken as the type, number some seven more or less well defined species.
They are of about the same size as the Cinereous Vulture,but may be distinguished by the oval, transversely placed nostrils, and a tail of fourteen feathers. The various members of the genus range over eastern Europe, nearly the whole of Africa, and hence through Persia to India and the Malay Peninsula.
They prefer the more open country and invariably nest on rocks, several often nesting near together. So far as known but a single, white, unspotted egg is laid.
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