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title: "Bearded Vulture"
description: "Gypaetus barbatus — Birds. The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), also known as the lammergeier and ossifrage, is a very large bird of prey in the monotypic genus Gypaetus."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/bearded-vulture
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Bearded Vulture

> Gypaetus barbatus — Birds. The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), also known as the lammergeier and ossifrage, is a very large bird of prey in the monotypic genus Gypaetus.

- Scientific name: *Gypaetus barbatus*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `mountains` (Mountains)
- iNaturalist observations: 8072
- Wikidata: [Q126167](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126167)
- iNaturalist taxon: [5379](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/5379)

## Names

- en: Bearded Vulture
- de: Bartgeier
- es: Quebrantahuesos
- fr: Gypaète barbu
- nl: Lammergier
- pt: Abutre-barbudo
- pl: Orłosęp

## Countries with the most observations

FR (1514), IT (1235), ES (1002), RU (859), CH (377), CN (273), AT (225), IN (205), ZA (190), MN (149), GE (147), KZ (143)

## Summary

The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), also known as the lammergeier and ossifrage, is a very large bird of prey in the monotypic genus Gypaetus. The bearded vulture is the only known vertebrate whose diet consists of 70–90% bone.
Traditionally considered an Old World vulture, it actually forms a separate minor lineage of Accipitridae together with the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus), its closest living relative. It is not much more closely related to the Old World vultures proper than to, for example, hawks, and differs from the former by its feathered neck. Although dissimilar, the Egyptian and bearded…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_vulture

## Photo

![Bearded Vulture](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/bearded-vulture/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dag Endresen · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/26975118

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/bearded-vulture?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).