Vulture Soaring Wallpaper
This vulture soaring wallpaper captures a Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus) in a low banking pass — those enormous brown wings fully stretched, the creamy white neck ruff standing out against the darker body, the grass blurring beneath it. One of Europe’s largest raptors with a wingspan that can exceed 2.6 metres, the Griffon Vulture is a master of thermal soaring and can travel hundreds of kilometres in a single day without a single wingbeat, and the Vulture Conservation Foundation notes it is Europe’s most social vulture, with approximately 35,000 breeding pairs currently recovering after a severe 20th-century decline caused by poisoning and hunting. Up close at this angle, the sheer scale of the animal is extraordinary.
Vulture Soaring Wallpaper — Nature’s Most Efficient Flyer Up Close
A bird that barely needs to flap, photographed in the one moment it looks like it means business. Download this free HD wallpaper and explore more dramatic bird photography in our birds collection.
