Wildlife & Flora
Lammergeier
Lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus) is a wildlife & flora sighting recorded around Pheriche, Dingboche, Lobuche.
- Scientific name
- Gypaetus barbatus
- Local name
- Haadfoor
- Category
- Wildlife & Flora
The lammergeier is a huge bird with a 10 feet wingspan, and despite its feathered head and slimmer build, is a vulture nevertheless. It can be told from the commoner Griffons by it's wedge-shaped tail and slimmer wings. And the reason these vultures can afford to have feathered neck and head is because it doesn't bother itself with the filthy entrails and messy muscles of a carcass. It feeds on what other vultures leave behind- the bones. Well not exactly bones, but bone marrow and to get to it, it takes the bones for a joyride and breaks them by dropping it on the rocks below.
