Large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings.
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Red-bereted shepherds walked their flocks past tumbledown stone watermills and over rushing streams; a griffon vulture circled above the limestone peaks.
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One summer we had several fine specimens in the great flying-cage, with the big and showy waterfowl, condor, griffon vulture, ravens and crows.
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The griffon vulture is not only ungainly, smelly and endangered: it is also often denied its biblical fame by being mixed up with the eagle.
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Soaring above us was a griffon vulture, but our binoculars were scanning the base of the limestone cliffs that rose steeply above the scree slope.
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It's even got griffon vultures. I'd planned to skip quickly across Cres but I change my mind.
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A newly hatched Griffon Vulture chick lies next to its egg at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, April 24, 2013.
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Only an hour or two before, griffon vultures had been eyeing our progress up the Vega de Urriellu within the Picos de Europa mountain range.