Egyptian Vulture: Neophron percnopterus

I'm way into vultures at the moment. They're ugly, sure, but they fill a unique ecological niche that's kinda cool... they eat dead things. They're carnivores who (usually) don't kill their meals.

The Egyptian Vulture is one of the smaller old world vultures, and frankly, one of the more attractive.


Smaller, more attractive, and fairly intelligent... it uses rocks to break into ostrich eggs.

Cool, right?

By the way, Egyptian Vulture's are also known as Pharaoh's chickens, they have their own hieroglyph and this one was doodled from a photo at Wikimedia Commons.