| 1 | Bearded vulture, Drakensberg Range, South Africa. | |
| 2 | Nighthawks (9) and black vultures (17) make more impressive gliders. | |
| 3 | It is also home to some giant animals like the eland, the world's largest antelope, and the bearded vulture, a huge raptor. | |
| 4 | In the absence of vultures, they have been reduced to rigging their towers with solar reflectors to shrivel the corpses. | |
| 5 | On a snowy Spanish hillside in Aragon, a griffon vulture vies with a raven for a scrap of food. |