Bearded vulture

With its large wingspan, silent gliding flight and pointed tail, the bearded vulture is easy to distinguish from other Alpine bird species. It can be frightening to see such a huge bird flying directly overhead, but bearded vultures are completely harmless. Their diet consists almost entirely of bone marrow. They can swallow even large bones whole and digest them with their special gastric juices. If a bone is too large, they carry it high into the air and drop it onto a rock to smash it. The bearded vulture's chicks are born at the end of winter and cannot digest bones. When the snow melts, wild animals that have died during the mountain winter are released, providing the bearded vulture with food for its young.

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Source Stiftung Pro Bartgeier