Lammergeyer

Word LAMMERGEYER
Character 11
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈlaməɡaɪə/

Definitions and meanings of "Lammergeyer"

What do we mean by lammergeyer?

A long-winged vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, found in southern Europe, Africa and India.

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The word "lammergeyer" in example sentences

Between five and six hundred species are represented, varying from the great vulture known as the lammergeyer, which is 9 1/2 feet across the outstretched wing, down to the tiny flower-pecker, barely exceeding 3 inches from the end of its beak to the tip of its tail. ❋ Francis Edward Younghusband (1902)

Pyrenees, or fill the sheltered valleys with their vocal music; while, soaring above the mountain summits, may be seen the great vulture-eagle, or "lammergeyer," watching with greedy eye the feeble lambkin, or the new-born kid of the ibex and izzard. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

I see that a lion is more like a lamb than it is like a lammergeyer (bird). ❋ Unknown (2001)

At that moment he saw the lammergeyer: it had already begun its stoop at the calf, dropping big and dark brown from the sky, wings cocked back and its talons reaching for the strike. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (1964)

The lammergeyer is quite content to make a meal of offal, old bones, or other refuse. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

The lammergeyer or bearded vulture (_Gypætus barbatus_) is the king of the vultures. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

The Hebrew word occurs, as the name of an unclean bird, in (Leviticus 11: 13) and Deuteronomy 14: 12 It is probably the lammergeyer, or bearded vulture as it is sometimes called, one of the largest of the birds of prey. ❋ Unknown (1884)

That other fellow is the great European lammergeyer. ' ❋ Susan Warner (1852)

"The nest of a lammergeyer!" exclaimed the izzard-hunter, the moment his eye glanced up to it. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

I, myself, was made acquainted with it by one of the "feeders" of the superb collection in Regent's Park -- who had observed this propensity for bone-eating in a young African lammergeyer. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

Some of the vultures -- such as the lammergeyer -- have almost all the habits of the eagle. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

Here golden eagles and lammergeyer vultures soar above the ridge lines, and snow leopards descend from those ridges under the cloak of night to cross from one range to another. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Well, this bird -- lammergeyer -- is the one which preys on lambs. " ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

The lammergeyer always kills what he eats, unless when pressed by hunger; and there is a singular fact in relation to the food of this bird, -- he prefers certain parts of the bones of animals to their flesh! " ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

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