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Helvic Head Waterford,
08-04-2025

Myself and Ger Lyons were on Helvic Head, Waterford, when Joe Adamson turned up and said 'Can you not hear it's sub-call', moments later he spotted it.
It reappeared momentarily every half-hour.
Could not believe our luck
Joe, Ger and Myself,
listened to it sing for a minute or so, none of us expected to hear that beautiful song on our shores

Scientific classification
Domain:Eukaryota
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Muscicapidae
Genus:Luscinia
Species:L. megarhynchos

[order] Passeriformes | [family] Muscicapidae | [latin] Luscinia megarhynchos | [UK] Nightingale | [FR] Rossignol philomèle | [DE] Nachtigall | [ES] Ruiseñor | [IT] Usignolo | [NL] Nachtegaal

Measurements
spanwidth min.: 22 cm
spanwidth max.: 25 cm
size min.: 15 cm
size max.: 16 cm
Breeding
incubation min.: 12 days
incubation max.: 14 days
fledging min.: 10 days
fledging max.: 12 days
broods 1
eggs min.: 3
eggs max.: 6

Physical characteristics

Medium-sized, graceful chat, with alert, rather upright carriage, noticeably uniform plumage, and skulking habits. Russet-brown above, warmest on tail, dull brown-grey below, with paler throat and vent, pale eye-ring emphasizes gentle expression. Flight flitting and low. Song rich and fluty. Sexes similar, no seasonal variation.

Habitat

Breeds in west Palearctic in middle and lower-middle latitudes, with some oceanic hias, in mild and warm temperate, Mediterranean, and steppe climatic zones. Differs from Thrush Nightingale in more southerly, westerly, and generally somewhat warmer breeding range, less restricted to lowlands, valleys, and neighbourhood of water in most regions, and more ready to inhabit drier sandy soils and sunny hillsides.

Other details

Luscinia megarhynchos is a widespread summer visitor to southern and western Europe, which constitutes >50% of its global breeding range. Its European breeding population is very large (>4,200,000 pairs), and was stable between 1970-1990. Although there were declines in France and Turkey during 1990-2000, these were set against stable trends or increases in other key populations such as Italy and Croatia, and the species probably remained stable overall.

Feeding

In breeding season, terrestrial invertebrates, especially beetles and ants. Feeds on ground, taking food mostly from litter layer but also from bare ground and from leaves or twigs or while gripping bark. Move on ground by long hops with also drop on to prey from perch and catch insects in flight.

Breeding

The nest of the nightingale is built by the female and is usually concealed in the brush, near the ground. The female lays 4-5 eggs which are pale green in color. It takes approximately 11-12 days for the eggs to hatch.

Migration

Migratory, wintering in Afrotropics. Western populations (nominate megarhynchos, breeding in Europe, western Turkey, and north-west Africa) winter between Sahara and rain forest from West Africa east to Uganda. European breeding birds leave in autumn between end of July and September. Movement through Europe broadly south-west, with birds occurring throughout Mediterranean region though commonest in west. The relative scarcity in much of North Africa and also Middle East in autumn suggests Mediterranean and Sahara normally crossed in one continuous flight. Present in winter quarters from early November to early April. Some present in Afrotropics until early May, but spring passage through Nigeria concentrated in late March and early April with arrivals in North Africa and southern Europe at this time. Unlike autumn, many records in spring along North African coast and on Mediterranean islands and even commonly inland in Algeria and Libya, so passage obviously on broad front.

Carrownure, Ardmullen
Co.Roscommon Ireland
27-02-2022

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Neophron
Savigny, 1809
Species:N. percnopterus
Binomial name
Neophron percnopterus

Measurement Average =Length: 65 cm | Wingspan: 168 cm | Weight: 1.9 kg

Odd-looking, pale, medium-sized vulture with a bare, solemn-looking yellow face. The bill is narrow with a black tip. In flight, the deep-fingered black flight feathers contrasting with white inner feathers may recall White Stork, but the tail is wedge shaped. Juveniles are dirty brown with bare gray faces. An inhabitant of open or semiopen areas, nesting on cliffs and less frequently in trees. Scavenges at rubbish dumps in addition to carcasses, but sadly is in decline over much of its wide range. Egyptian vultures have white colored heads and backs. Flight feathers are darker, near black in color. Individuals have a collared-look of spiked feathers around the neck and a featherless face. The face shifts from yellow to orange for breeding season The featherless face is thought to be useful for thermoregulation purposes as well as for keeping food particles from clinging to plumage. The bill is large and narrow with a curved tip to the beak, a feature that facilitates removing the last bits of tissue between bones. There is little physical difference between males and females. However, females tend to have a slightly higher body mass, on average, than do males. Sexually immature birds are uniformly brown. The Egyptian Vulture is the world’s only tool-using vulture and Europe’s smallest and only true long-distance migratory vulture. The species is considered globally endangered and is the only European vulture which population is declining. The good news is that many conservation initiatives are currently working to preserve and boost the Egyptian Vulture population in Europe and beyond.

Carrownure, Ardmullen
Co.Roscommon Ireland
27-02-2022

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Neophron
Savigny, 1809
Species:N. percnopterus
Binomial name
Neophron percnopterus

Measurement Average =Length: 65 cm | Wingspan: 168 cm | Weight: 1.9 kg

Odd-looking, pale, medium-sized vulture with a bare, solemn-looking yellow face. The bill is narrow with a black tip. In flight, the deep-fingered black flight feathers contrasting with white inner feathers may recall White Stork, but the tail is wedge shaped. Juveniles are dirty brown with bare gray faces. An inhabitant of open or semiopen areas, nesting on cliffs and less frequently in trees. Scavenges at rubbish dumps in addition to carcasses, but sadly is in decline over much of its wide range. Egyptian vultures have white colored heads and backs. Flight feathers are darker, near black in color. Individuals have a collared-look of spiked feathers around the neck and a featherless face. The face shifts from yellow to orange for breeding season The featherless face is thought to be useful for thermoregulation purposes as well as for keeping food particles from clinging to plumage. The bill is large and narrow with a curved tip to the beak, a feature that facilitates removing the last bits of tissue between bones. There is little physical difference between males and females. However, females tend to have a slightly higher body mass, on average, than do males. Sexually immature birds are uniformly brown. The Egyptian Vulture is the world’s only tool-using vulture and Europe’s smallest and only true long-distance migratory vulture. The species is considered globally endangered and is the only European vulture which population is declining. The good news is that many conservation initiatives are currently working to preserve and boost the Egyptian Vulture population in Europe and beyond.

Carrownure, Ardmullen
Co.Roscommon Ireland
27-02-2022

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Neophron
Savigny, 1809
Species:N. percnopterus
Binomial name
Neophron percnopterus

Measurement Average =Length: 65 cm | Wingspan: 168 cm | Weight: 1.9 kg

Odd-looking, pale, medium-sized vulture with a bare, solemn-looking yellow face. The bill is narrow with a black tip. In flight, the deep-fingered black flight feathers contrasting with white inner feathers may recall White Stork, but the tail is wedge shaped. Juveniles are dirty brown with bare gray faces. An inhabitant of open or semiopen areas, nesting on cliffs and less frequently in trees. Scavenges at rubbish dumps in addition to carcasses, but sadly is in decline over much of its wide range. Egyptian vultures have white colored heads and backs. Flight feathers are darker, near black in color. Individuals have a collared-look of spiked feathers around the neck and a featherless face. The face shifts from yellow to orange for breeding season The featherless face is thought to be useful for thermoregulation purposes as well as for keeping food particles from clinging to plumage. The bill is large and narrow with a curved tip to the beak, a feature that facilitates removing the last bits of tissue between bones. There is little physical difference between males and females. However, females tend to have a slightly higher body mass, on average, than do males. Sexually immature birds are uniformly brown. The Egyptian Vulture is the world’s only tool-using vulture and Europe’s smallest and only true long-distance migratory vulture. The species is considered globally endangered and is the only European vulture which population is declining. The good news is that many conservation initiatives are currently working to preserve and boost the Egyptian Vulture population in Europe and beyond.

Carrownure, Ardmullen
Co.Roscommon Ireland
27-02-2022

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Neophron
Savigny, 1809
Species:N. percnopterus
Binomial name
Neophron percnopterus

Measurement Average =Length: 65 cm | Wingspan: 168 cm | Weight: 1.9 kg

Odd-looking, pale, medium-sized vulture with a bare, solemn-looking yellow face. The bill is narrow with a black tip. In flight, the deep-fingered black flight feathers contrasting with white inner feathers may recall White Stork, but the tail is wedge shaped. Juveniles are dirty brown with bare gray faces. An inhabitant of open or semiopen areas, nesting on cliffs and less frequently in trees. Scavenges at rubbish dumps in addition to carcasses, but sadly is in decline over much of its wide range. Egyptian vultures have white colored heads and backs. Flight feathers are darker, near black in color. Individuals have a collared-look of spiked feathers around the neck and a featherless face. The face shifts from yellow to orange for breeding season The featherless face is thought to be useful for thermoregulation purposes as well as for keeping food particles from clinging to plumage. The bill is large and narrow with a curved tip to the beak, a feature that facilitates removing the last bits of tissue between bones. There is little physical difference between males and females. However, females tend to have a slightly higher body mass, on average, than do males. Sexually immature birds are uniformly brown. The Egyptian Vulture is the world’s only tool-using vulture and Europe’s smallest and only true long-distance migratory vulture. The species is considered globally endangered and is the only European vulture which population is declining. The good news is that many conservation initiatives are currently working to preserve and boost the Egyptian Vulture population in Europe and beyond.

Carrownure, Ardmullen
Co.Roscommon Ireland
27-02-2022

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Neophron
Savigny, 1809
Species:N. percnopterus
Binomial name
Neophron percnopterus

Measurement Average =Length: 65 cm | Wingspan: 168 cm | Weight: 1.9 kg

Odd-looking, pale, medium-sized vulture with a bare, solemn-looking yellow face. The bill is narrow with a black tip. In flight, the deep-fingered black flight feathers contrasting with white inner feathers may recall White Stork, but the tail is wedge shaped. Juveniles are dirty brown with bare gray faces. An inhabitant of open or semiopen areas, nesting on cliffs and less frequently in trees. Scavenges at rubbish dumps in addition to carcasses, but sadly is in decline over much of its wide range. Egyptian vultures have white colored heads and backs. Flight feathers are darker, near black in color. Individuals have a collared-look of spiked feathers around the neck and a featherless face. The face shifts from yellow to orange for breeding season The featherless face is thought to be useful for thermoregulation purposes as well as for keeping food particles from clinging to plumage. The bill is large and narrow with a curved tip to the beak, a feature that facilitates removing the last bits of tissue between bones. There is little physical difference between males and females. However, females tend to have a slightly higher body mass, on average, than do males. Sexually immature birds are uniformly brown. The Egyptian Vulture is the world’s only tool-using vulture and Europe’s smallest and only true long-distance migratory vulture. The species is considered globally endangered and is the only European vulture which population is declining. The good news is that many conservation initiatives are currently working to preserve and boost the Egyptian Vulture population in Europe and beyond.

Carrownure, Ardmullen
Co.Roscommon Ireland
27-02-2022

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Neophron
Savigny, 1809
Species:N. percnopterus
Binomial name
Neophron percnopterus

Measurement Average =Length: 65 cm | Wingspan: 168 cm | Weight: 1.9 kg

Odd-looking, pale, medium-sized vulture with a bare, solemn-looking yellow face. The bill is narrow with a black tip. In flight, the deep-fingered black flight feathers contrasting with white inner feathers may recall White Stork, but the tail is wedge shaped. Juveniles are dirty brown with bare gray faces. An inhabitant of open or semiopen areas, nesting on cliffs and less frequently in trees. Scavenges at rubbish dumps in addition to carcasses, but sadly is in decline over much of its wide range. Egyptian vultures have white colored heads and backs. Flight feathers are darker, near black in color. Individuals have a collared-look of spiked feathers around the neck and a featherless face. The face shifts from yellow to orange for breeding season The featherless face is thought to be useful for thermoregulation purposes as well as for keeping food particles from clinging to plumage. The bill is large and narrow with a curved tip to the beak, a feature that facilitates removing the last bits of tissue between bones. There is little physical difference between males and females. However, females tend to have a slightly higher body mass, on average, than do males. Sexually immature birds are uniformly brown. The Egyptian Vulture is the world’s only tool-using vulture and Europe’s smallest and only true long-distance migratory vulture. The species is considered globally endangered and is the only European vulture which population is declining. The good news is that many conservation initiatives are currently working to preserve and boost the Egyptian Vulture population in Europe and beyond.

Carrownure, Ardmullen
Co.Roscommon Ireland
27-02-2022

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Neophron
Savigny, 1809
Species:N. percnopterus
Binomial name
Neophron percnopterus

Measurement Average =Length: 65 cm | Wingspan: 168 cm | Weight: 1.9 kg

Odd-looking, pale, medium-sized vulture with a bare, solemn-looking yellow face. The bill is narrow with a black tip. In flight, the deep-fingered black flight feathers contrasting with white inner feathers may recall White Stork, but the tail is wedge shaped. Juveniles are dirty brown with bare gray faces. An inhabitant of open or semiopen areas, nesting on cliffs and less frequently in trees. Scavenges at rubbish dumps in addition to carcasses, but sadly is in decline over much of its wide range. Egyptian vultures have white colored heads and backs. Flight feathers are darker, near black in color. Individuals have a collared-look of spiked feathers around the neck and a featherless face. The face shifts from yellow to orange for breeding season The featherless face is thought to be useful for thermoregulation purposes as well as for keeping food particles from clinging to plumage. The bill is large and narrow with a curved tip to the beak, a feature that facilitates removing the last bits of tissue between bones. There is little physical difference between males and females. However, females tend to have a slightly higher body mass, on average, than do males. Sexually immature birds are uniformly brown. The Egyptian Vulture is the world’s only tool-using vulture and Europe’s smallest and only true long-distance migratory vulture. The species is considered globally endangered and is the only European vulture which population is declining. The good news is that many conservation initiatives are currently working to preserve and boost the Egyptian Vulture population in Europe and beyond.

Carrownure, Ardmullen
Co.Roscommon Ireland
27-02-2022

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Neophron
Savigny, 1809
Species:N. percnopterus
Binomial name
Neophron percnopterus

Measurement Average =Length: 65 cm | Wingspan: 168 cm | Weight: 1.9 kg

Odd-looking, pale, medium-sized vulture with a bare, solemn-looking yellow face. The bill is narrow with a black tip. In flight, the deep-fingered black flight feathers contrasting with white inner feathers may recall White Stork, but the tail is wedge shaped. Juveniles are dirty brown with bare gray faces. An inhabitant of open or semiopen areas, nesting on cliffs and less frequently in trees. Scavenges at rubbish dumps in addition to carcasses, but sadly is in decline over much of its wide range. Egyptian vultures have white colored heads and backs. Flight feathers are darker, near black in color. Individuals have a collared-look of spiked feathers around the neck and a featherless face. The face shifts from yellow to orange for breeding season The featherless face is thought to be useful for thermoregulation purposes as well as for keeping food particles from clinging to plumage. The bill is large and narrow with a curved tip to the beak, a feature that facilitates removing the last bits of tissue between bones. There is little physical difference between males and females. However, females tend to have a slightly higher body mass, on average, than do males. Sexually immature birds are uniformly brown. The Egyptian Vulture is the world’s only tool-using vulture and Europe’s smallest and only true long-distance migratory vulture. The species is considered globally endangered and is the only European vulture which population is declining. The good news is that many conservation initiatives are currently working to preserve and boost the Egyptian Vulture population in Europe and beyond.

Carrownure, Ardmullen
Co.Roscommon Ireland
27-02-2022

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Neophron
Savigny, 1809
Species:N. percnopterus
Binomial name
Neophron percnopterus

Measurement Average =Length: 65 cm | Wingspan: 168 cm | Weight: 1.9 kg

Odd-looking, pale, medium-sized vulture with a bare, solemn-looking yellow face. The bill is narrow with a black tip. In flight, the deep-fingered black flight feathers contrasting with white inner feathers may recall White Stork, but the tail is wedge shaped. Juveniles are dirty brown with bare gray faces. An inhabitant of open or semiopen areas, nesting on cliffs and less frequently in trees. Scavenges at rubbish dumps in addition to carcasses, but sadly is in decline over much of its wide range. Egyptian vultures have white colored heads and backs. Flight feathers are darker, near black in color. Individuals have a collared-look of spiked feathers around the neck and a featherless face. The face shifts from yellow to orange for breeding season The featherless face is thought to be useful for thermoregulation purposes as well as for keeping food particles from clinging to plumage. The bill is large and narrow with a curved tip to the beak, a feature that facilitates removing the last bits of tissue between bones. There is little physical difference between males and females. However, females tend to have a slightly higher body mass, on average, than do males. Sexually immature birds are uniformly brown. The Egyptian Vulture is the world’s only tool-using vulture and Europe’s smallest and only true long-distance migratory vulture. The species is considered globally endangered and is the only European vulture which population is declining. The good news is that many conservation initiatives are currently working to preserve and boost the Egyptian Vulture population in Europe and beyond.

Carrownure, Ardmullen
Co.Roscommon Ireland
27-02-2022

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Neophron
Savigny, 1809
Species:N. percnopterus
Binomial name
Neophron percnopterus

Measurement Average =Length: 65 cm | Wingspan: 168 cm | Weight: 1.9 kg

Odd-looking, pale, medium-sized vulture with a bare, solemn-looking yellow face. The bill is narrow with a black tip. In flight, the deep-fingered black flight feathers contrasting with white inner feathers may recall White Stork, but the tail is wedge shaped. Juveniles are dirty brown with bare gray faces. An inhabitant of open or semiopen areas, nesting on cliffs and less frequently in trees. Scavenges at rubbish dumps in addition to carcasses, but sadly is in decline over much of its wide range. Egyptian vultures have white colored heads and backs. Flight feathers are darker, near black in color. Individuals have a collared-look of spiked feathers around the neck and a featherless face. The face shifts from yellow to orange for breeding season The featherless face is thought to be useful for thermoregulation purposes as well as for keeping food particles from clinging to plumage. The bill is large and narrow with a curved tip to the beak, a feature that facilitates removing the last bits of tissue between bones. There is little physical difference between males and females. However, females tend to have a slightly higher body mass, on average, than do males. Sexually immature birds are uniformly brown. The Egyptian Vulture is the world’s only tool-using vulture and Europe’s smallest and only true long-distance migratory vulture. The species is considered globally endangered and is the only European vulture which population is declining. The good news is that many conservation initiatives are currently working to preserve and boost the Egyptian Vulture population in Europe and beyond.

Carrownure, Ardmullen
Co.Roscommon Ireland
27-02-2022

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Neophron
Savigny, 1809
Species:N. percnopterus
Binomial name
Neophron percnopterus

Measurement Average =Length: 65 cm | Wingspan: 168 cm | Weight: 1.9 kg

Odd-looking, pale, medium-sized vulture with a bare, solemn-looking yellow face. The bill is narrow with a black tip. In flight, the deep-fingered black flight feathers contrasting with white inner feathers may recall White Stork, but the tail is wedge shaped. Juveniles are dirty brown with bare gray faces. An inhabitant of open or semiopen areas, nesting on cliffs and less frequently in trees. Scavenges at rubbish dumps in addition to carcasses, but sadly is in decline over much of its wide range. Egyptian vultures have white colored heads and backs. Flight feathers are darker, near black in color. Individuals have a collared-look of spiked feathers around the neck and a featherless face. The face shifts from yellow to orange for breeding season The featherless face is thought to be useful for thermoregulation purposes as well as for keeping food particles from clinging to plumage. The bill is large and narrow with a curved tip to the beak, a feature that facilitates removing the last bits of tissue between bones. There is little physical difference between males and females. However, females tend to have a slightly higher body mass, on average, than do males. Sexually immature birds are uniformly brown. The Egyptian Vulture is the world’s only tool-using vulture and Europe’s smallest and only true long-distance migratory vulture. The species is considered globally endangered and is the only European vulture which population is declining. The good news is that many conservation initiatives are currently working to preserve and boost the Egyptian Vulture population in Europe and beyond.

Carrownure, Ardmullen
Co.Roscommon Ireland
27-02-2022

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Neophron
Savigny, 1809
Species:N. percnopterus
Binomial name
Neophron percnopterus

Measurement Average =Length: 65 cm | Wingspan: 168 cm | Weight: 1.9 kg

Odd-looking, pale, medium-sized vulture with a bare, solemn-looking yellow face. The bill is narrow with a black tip. In flight, the deep-fingered black flight feathers contrasting with white inner feathers may recall White Stork, but the tail is wedge shaped. Juveniles are dirty brown with bare gray faces. An inhabitant of open or semiopen areas, nesting on cliffs and less frequently in trees. Scavenges at rubbish dumps in addition to carcasses, but sadly is in decline over much of its wide range. Egyptian vultures have white colored heads and backs. Flight feathers are darker, near black in color. Individuals have a collared-look of spiked feathers around the neck and a featherless face. The face shifts from yellow to orange for breeding season The featherless face is thought to be useful for thermoregulation purposes as well as for keeping food particles from clinging to plumage. The bill is large and narrow with a curved tip to the beak, a feature that facilitates removing the last bits of tissue between bones. There is little physical difference between males and females. However, females tend to have a slightly higher body mass, on average, than do males. Sexually immature birds are uniformly brown. The Egyptian Vulture is the world’s only tool-using vulture and Europe’s smallest and only true long-distance migratory vulture. The species is considered globally endangered and is the only European vulture which population is declining. The good news is that many conservation initiatives are currently working to preserve and boost the Egyptian Vulture population in Europe and beyond.

Carrownure, Ardmullen
Co.Roscommon Ireland
27-02-2022

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Neophron
Savigny, 1809
Species:N. percnopterus
Binomial name
Neophron percnopterus

Measurement Average =Length: 65 cm | Wingspan: 168 cm | Weight: 1.9 kg

Odd-looking, pale, medium-sized vulture with a bare, solemn-looking yellow face. The bill is narrow with a black tip. In flight, the deep-fingered black flight feathers contrasting with white inner feathers may recall White Stork, but the tail is wedge shaped. Juveniles are dirty brown with bare gray faces. An inhabitant of open or semiopen areas, nesting on cliffs and less frequently in trees. Scavenges at rubbish dumps in addition to carcasses, but sadly is in decline over much of its wide range. Egyptian vultures have white colored heads and backs. Flight feathers are darker, near black in color. Individuals have a collared-look of spiked feathers around the neck and a featherless face. The face shifts from yellow to orange for breeding season The featherless face is thought to be useful for thermoregulation purposes as well as for keeping food particles from clinging to plumage. The bill is large and narrow with a curved tip to the beak, a feature that facilitates removing the last bits of tissue between bones. There is little physical difference between males and females. However, females tend to have a slightly higher body mass, on average, than do males. Sexually immature birds are uniformly brown. The Egyptian Vulture is the world’s only tool-using vulture and Europe’s smallest and only true long-distance migratory vulture. The species is considered globally endangered and is the only European vulture which population is declining. The good news is that many conservation initiatives are currently working to preserve and boost the Egyptian Vulture population in Europe and beyond.

Carrownure, Ardmullen
Co.Roscommon Ireland
27-02-2022

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Neophron
Savigny, 1809
Species:N. percnopterus
Binomial name
Neophron percnopterus

Measurement Average =Length: 65 cm | Wingspan: 168 cm | Weight: 1.9 kg

Odd-looking, pale, medium-sized vulture with a bare, solemn-looking yellow face. The bill is narrow with a black tip. In flight, the deep-fingered black flight feathers contrasting with white inner feathers may recall White Stork, but the tail is wedge shaped. Juveniles are dirty brown with bare gray faces. An inhabitant of open or semiopen areas, nesting on cliffs and less frequently in trees. Scavenges at rubbish dumps in addition to carcasses, but sadly is in decline over much of its wide range. Egyptian vultures have white colored heads and backs. Flight feathers are darker, near black in color. Individuals have a collared-look of spiked feathers around the neck and a featherless face. The face shifts from yellow to orange for breeding season The featherless face is thought to be useful for thermoregulation purposes as well as for keeping food particles from clinging to plumage. The bill is large and narrow with a curved tip to the beak, a feature that facilitates removing the last bits of tissue between bones. There is little physical difference between males and females. However, females tend to have a slightly higher body mass, on average, than do males. Sexually immature birds are uniformly brown. The Egyptian Vulture is the world’s only tool-using vulture and Europe’s smallest and only true long-distance migratory vulture. The species is considered globally endangered and is the only European vulture which population is declining. The good news is that many conservation initiatives are currently working to preserve and boost the Egyptian Vulture population in Europe and beyond.

Carrownure, Ardmullen
Co.Roscommon Ireland
27-02-2022

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Neophron
Savigny, 1809
Species:N. percnopterus
Binomial name
Neophron percnopterus

Measurement Average =Length: 65 cm | Wingspan: 168 cm | Weight: 1.9 kg

Odd-looking, pale, medium-sized vulture with a bare, solemn-looking yellow face. The bill is narrow with a black tip. In flight, the deep-fingered black flight feathers contrasting with white inner feathers may recall White Stork, but the tail is wedge shaped. Juveniles are dirty brown with bare gray faces. An inhabitant of open or semiopen areas, nesting on cliffs and less frequently in trees. Scavenges at rubbish dumps in addition to carcasses, but sadly is in decline over much of its wide range. Egyptian vultures have white colored heads and backs. Flight feathers are darker, near black in color. Individuals have a collared-look of spiked feathers around the neck and a featherless face. The face shifts from yellow to orange for breeding season The featherless face is thought to be useful for thermoregulation purposes as well as for keeping food particles from clinging to plumage. The bill is large and narrow with a curved tip to the beak, a feature that facilitates removing the last bits of tissue between bones. There is little physical difference between males and females. However, females tend to have a slightly higher body mass, on average, than do males. Sexually immature birds are uniformly brown. The Egyptian Vulture is the world’s only tool-using vulture and Europe’s smallest and only true long-distance migratory vulture. The species is considered globally endangered and is the only European vulture which population is declining. The good news is that many conservation initiatives are currently working to preserve and boost the Egyptian Vulture population in Europe and beyond.

Carrownure, Ardmullen
Co.Roscommon Ireland
27-02-2022

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Neophron
Savigny, 1809
Species:N. percnopterus
Binomial name
Neophron percnopterus

Measurement Average =Length: 65 cm | Wingspan: 168 cm | Weight: 1.9 kg

Odd-looking, pale, medium-sized vulture with a bare, solemn-looking yellow face. The bill is narrow with a black tip. In flight, the deep-fingered black flight feathers contrasting with white inner feathers may recall White Stork, but the tail is wedge shaped. Juveniles are dirty brown with bare gray faces. An inhabitant of open or semiopen areas, nesting on cliffs and less frequently in trees. Scavenges at rubbish dumps in addition to carcasses, but sadly is in decline over much of its wide range. Egyptian vultures have white colored heads and backs. Flight feathers are darker, near black in color. Individuals have a collared-look of spiked feathers around the neck and a featherless face. The face shifts from yellow to orange for breeding season The featherless face is thought to be useful for thermoregulation purposes as well as for keeping food particles from clinging to plumage. The bill is large and narrow with a curved tip to the beak, a feature that facilitates removing the last bits of tissue between bones. There is little physical difference between males and females. However, females tend to have a slightly higher body mass, on average, than do males. Sexually immature birds are uniformly brown. The Egyptian Vulture is the world’s only tool-using vulture and Europe’s smallest and only true long-distance migratory vulture. The species is considered globally endangered and is the only European vulture which population is declining. The good news is that many conservation initiatives are currently working to preserve and boost the Egyptian Vulture population in Europe and beyond.

Carrownure, Ardmullen
Co.Roscommon Ireland
27-02-2022

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Neophron
Savigny, 1809
Species:N. percnopterus
Binomial name
Neophron percnopterus

Measurement Average =Length: 65 cm | Wingspan: 168 cm | Weight: 1.9 kg

Odd-looking, pale, medium-sized vulture with a bare, solemn-looking yellow face. The bill is narrow with a black tip. In flight, the deep-fingered black flight feathers contrasting with white inner feathers may recall White Stork, but the tail is wedge shaped. Juveniles are dirty brown with bare gray faces. An inhabitant of open or semiopen areas, nesting on cliffs and less frequently in trees. Scavenges at rubbish dumps in addition to carcasses, but sadly is in decline over much of its wide range. Egyptian vultures have white colored heads and backs. Flight feathers are darker, near black in color. Individuals have a collared-look of spiked feathers around the neck and a featherless face. The face shifts from yellow to orange for breeding season The featherless face is thought to be useful for thermoregulation purposes as well as for keeping food particles from clinging to plumage. The bill is large and narrow with a curved tip to the beak, a feature that facilitates removing the last bits of tissue between bones. There is little physical difference between males and females. However, females tend to have a slightly higher body mass, on average, than do males. Sexually immature birds are uniformly brown. The Egyptian Vulture is the world’s only tool-using vulture and Europe’s smallest and only true long-distance migratory vulture. The species is considered globally endangered and is the only European vulture which population is declining. The good news is that many conservation initiatives are currently working to preserve and boost the Egyptian Vulture population in Europe and beyond.

Carrownure, Ardmullen
Co.Roscommon Ireland
27-02-2022

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Neophron
Savigny, 1809
Species:N. percnopterus
Binomial name
Neophron percnopterus

Measurement Average =Length: 65 cm | Wingspan: 168 cm | Weight: 1.9 kg

Odd-looking, pale, medium-sized vulture with a bare, solemn-looking yellow face. The bill is narrow with a black tip. In flight, the deep-fingered black flight feathers contrasting with white inner feathers may recall White Stork, but the tail is wedge shaped. Juveniles are dirty brown with bare gray faces. An inhabitant of open or semiopen areas, nesting on cliffs and less frequently in trees. Scavenges at rubbish dumps in addition to carcasses, but sadly is in decline over much of its wide range. Egyptian vultures have white colored heads and backs. Flight feathers are darker, near black in color. Individuals have a collared-look of spiked feathers around the neck and a featherless face. The face shifts from yellow to orange for breeding season The featherless face is thought to be useful for thermoregulation purposes as well as for keeping food particles from clinging to plumage. The bill is large and narrow with a curved tip to the beak, a feature that facilitates removing the last bits of tissue between bones. There is little physical difference between males and females. However, females tend to have a slightly higher body mass, on average, than do males. Sexually immature birds are uniformly brown. The Egyptian Vulture is the world’s only tool-using vulture and Europe’s smallest and only true long-distance migratory vulture. The species is considered globally endangered and is the only European vulture which population is declining. The good news is that many conservation initiatives are currently working to preserve and boost the Egyptian Vulture population in Europe and beyond.

Carrownure, Ardmullen
Co.Roscommon Ireland
27-02-2022

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Neophron
Savigny, 1809
Species:N. percnopterus
Binomial name
Neophron percnopterus

Measurement Average =Length: 65 cm | Wingspan: 168 cm | Weight: 1.9 kg

Odd-looking, pale, medium-sized vulture with a bare, solemn-looking yellow face. The bill is narrow with a black tip. In flight, the deep-fingered black flight feathers contrasting with white inner feathers may recall White Stork, but the tail is wedge shaped. Juveniles are dirty brown with bare gray faces. An inhabitant of open or semiopen areas, nesting on cliffs and less frequently in trees. Scavenges at rubbish dumps in addition to carcasses, but sadly is in decline over much of its wide range. Egyptian vultures have white colored heads and backs. Flight feathers are darker, near black in color. Individuals have a collared-look of spiked feathers around the neck and a featherless face. The face shifts from yellow to orange for breeding season The featherless face is thought to be useful for thermoregulation purposes as well as for keeping food particles from clinging to plumage. The bill is large and narrow with a curved tip to the beak, a feature that facilitates removing the last bits of tissue between bones. There is little physical difference between males and females. However, females tend to have a slightly higher body mass, on average, than do males. Sexually immature birds are uniformly brown. The Egyptian Vulture is the world’s only tool-using vulture and Europe’s smallest and only true long-distance migratory vulture. The species is considered globally endangered and is the only European vulture which population is declining. The good news is that many conservation initiatives are currently working to preserve and boost the Egyptian Vulture population in Europe and beyond.