There is also the phene (or lammergeier) and the vulture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

A black speck appeared high in the sky; grew fast — the lammergeier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metal Monster] Reference

I had a most unpleasant experience with a lammergeier in Baluchistan near Quetta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

There are 25 species of raptors including lammergeier Gypaetus barbatus and four other vultures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simen National Park, Ethiopia] Reference

Endangered fauna includes the brown bear (Ursus arctos) and the lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus).    From Wordnik.com.  [Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests] Reference

A lammergeier swooped down on wide funereal wings; it peered at us; darted away toward the cliffs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metal Monster] Reference

The ecoregion also contains the last stronghold of the lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus) in southern Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests] Reference

A very highly endangered raptor is the lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus), of which some forty pairs are still found in the Pyrenees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests] Reference

Aeschylus was reputedly killed by a tortoise that a lammergeier had dropped on his head; the thought made me draw my head into my shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

The so-called phene, or lammergeier, is fond of its young, provides its food with ease, fetches food to its nest, and is of a kindly disposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

There are several other high-elevation specialists, such as the Himalayan snowcock (Tetraogallus himalayensis), Tibetan partridge (Perdix hodgsoniae), snow partridge (Lerwa lerwa), Satyr tragopan (Tragopan satyra), lammergeier, and the Himalayan griffon, that also need conservation attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows] Reference

None are endemic, but there are several characteristic Himalayan species such as the lammergeier, golden eagle, Himalayan griffon, snow partridge (Lerwa lerwa), Tibetan snowcock (Tetraogallus tibetanus), and Himalayan snowcock (Tetraogallus himalayensis), which should be focal species for conservation efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows] Reference

Although 179 highland bird species have been recorded for the mountain, species recorded in the upper zones are few in number, although they include occasional lammergeier Gypaetus barbatus, mainly on the Shira ridge, hill chat Cercomela sordida, Hunter's cisticola Cisticola hunteri, and scarlet-tufted malachite sunbird Nectarinia johnstoni.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania] Reference

Avian predators such as the lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus), Himalayan griffon (Gyps himalayensis), black eagle (Ictinaetus malayensis), and northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) soar high among the peaks searching for colonial marmots (Marmota himalayana), which build extensive burrows in which they gain refuge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows] Reference

Other birds that are typical of these high-altitude ecosystems and can be used as focal species for conservation management planning include the blood pheasant (Ithaginis cruentus), western tragopan (Tragopan melanoephalus), Satyr tragopan (Tragopan satyra), and Himalayan monal (Lophophorus impejanus), which inhabit the shrubby ground cover, and the large avian predators, lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus), golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), and Himalayan griffon (Gyps himalayensis).    From Wordnik.com.  [Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows] Reference

"The lammergeier, as they call it in the Alpine regions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor] Reference

An ossifrage is a lammergeier or bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus (note the "ae" dipthong) http: / / en. wikipedia.org / wiki / Ossifrage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Ubuntu] Reference

Birds include lammergeier Gypaetus barbatus, golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, European kestrel Falco tinnunculus, black grouse Tetrao tetrix, hazel grouse Bonasa bonasia, chukar Alectoris graeca, rock ptarmigan Lagopus mutus, Tengmalm's owl Aegolius funereus and pygmy owl Glaucidium passerinum, black woodpecker Dryocopus martius, great spotted woodpecker Dendrocopos major, green woodpecker Picus viridis, yellow-billed chough Pyrrhocorax graculus, red-billed chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, European nutcracker Nucifraga caryacatactes, wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria, rock thrush, Monticolla saxatilis and snow finch Montifrigilla nivalis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland] Reference