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. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt] Reference
I see that a lion is more like a lamb than it is like a lammergeyer (bird). From Wordnik.com. [The Loves of Plants and Animals: Romantic Science and the Pleasures of Nature] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [When the Lion Feeds]
That other fellow is the great European lammergeyer. '. From Wordnik.com. [A Red Wallflower] Reference
The lammergeyer is quite content to make a meal of offal, old bones, or other refuse. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference
Some of the vultures -- such as the lammergeyer -- have almost all the habits of the eagle. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Hunters] Reference
"The nest of a lammergeyer!" exclaimed the izzard-hunter, the moment his eye glanced up to it. From Wordnik.com. [Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Hunters] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Well, this bird -- lammergeyer -- is the one which preys on lambs. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps] Reference
Challenge the lammergeyer where she swings. From Wordnik.com. [Masters of the Guild] Reference
"Yes; the lammergeyer -- the Alpine eagle.". From Wordnik.com. [The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps] Reference
Argul ... .... lammergeyer. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference
Okhab ... .... lammergeyer. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference
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