Re: addendum: vultures & predation

[Monte-Cristo <monte@gmx.net>]

Berislav Krzic wrote:
> 
> The bird in question (Gypaetus barbatus = bearded vulture) lives on > the
> Balkans peninsula (Europe), too, but is extremely rare. It favors bone
> marrow, which it gets by throwing the bones from the air.
> (The biggest European  true vulture Gyps fulvus, lives on the Balkans, > too.)
 
What´s wrong with the Black vulture (Aegypius monachus)?  It´s bigger
than _Gyps fulvus_, but it´s not a `true´ vulture? It nests in Spain.

[{(Monte)}]