Burung nasar dan kondor (Vultures & Condors)
Bearded Vulture
Gypaetus barbatus
- mistis
- 120 km/h
- Hampir terancam
Drops bones from height to crack them, then eats the marrow. The only bird whose diet is 85% bone — and your message.
- Populasi
- Roughly 1,675–6,700 mature individuals globally, decreasing
- Habitat
- Remote, precipitous mountainous terrain — cliffs and rocky ledges typically above 1,000-2,000 m elevation (up to ~4,500–5,000 m in Africa/Central Asia), near ungulate herds and large predators
- Fakta menarik
- The Bearded Vulture is the only known vertebrate whose diet is composed mostly of bone, and it will drop large bones from heights of 50-150 m onto rocky "ossuaries" to smash them into swallowable fragments.
- Sebaran
- Widely but patchily distributed across the Palearctic, Afrotropical, and Indomalayan regions (~61.7 million km² of range): Pyrenees, Alps, Caucasus, Arabian Peninsula, Iranian mountains, Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Himalayas, into China, plus isolated populations in East (Ethiopian Highlands), North, and southern Africa
- Makanan
- Scavenger specializing in bones and bone marrow (roughly 70-90% of diet per most sources, sometimes cited as 85-90%), mostly from mammal carcasses; drops large bones from height (50-150 m) onto rocks ("ossuaries") to crack them open and swallow the fragments/marrow
- Ukuran
- 1,1 m
- Bentang sayap
- 2,5 m
- Masa hidup
- 25 tahun
