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Amid grey mounds of dusty rocks we were able to see Egyptian vultures and steppe eagles.

Farmers in parts of Europe are to be allowed to resume the practice of leaving dead livestock in their fields for vultures to feed on.

As you say, creditors are roosting in trees like vultures waiting to swoop down on anything valuable.

However, when I'm out on the boat, horse flies will descend like vultures.

When asked why, the villagers often fly into a rage stating that if celestial burial is followed, vultures would not come.

The Griffon Vultures circle overhead, observing all this, knowing their timing has to be 'just right, ' they begin their group descent.

Asian vultures have declined rapidly over the last eight years due to the use of a livestock drug called diclofenac.

Jackals and hyenas are the scavengers of the land whereas vultures are the undisputed scavengers of the air.

At the time, she called them a "pack of vultures" . Now she prefers to see them as "rescuers" .

The centre is intended to create a secure breeding-stock of vultures that may eventually be released into a diclofenac-free wild.

The master lights aromatic plants for smoke, smoke used as a signal to cinereous vultures, and cut the body into pieces.

Most impressive, though, was a pair of lappet-faced vultures, which have a wingspan of 10ft and are the largest birds in Oman.

Vultures are now vanishing across Africa as well, denying lions and other animals the crucial ability to follow circling birds to carcasses.

Dogs feed on it, jackals, wolves, & worms. Crows & vultures feed on it, along with any other animals there.

At the moment it has 124 vultures, most of them trapped as nestlings in the past two years.

But the retreat had been hurried and the vultures and the good Samaritans would have to look to the dead.

Since then, engineers have tracked vultures as a routine part of launch by taking pictures of the launch area from two different angles.

But one poisoned carcass can kill up to 150 vultures, when they swoop in to pick up the remains.

After a signal is sent off, the ravenous vultures swoop down and peck at the flesh and the bones scattered around.

the vultures, bare-necked, heavy, sat on the top of the tree waiting for the carrion to come floating down the river.

Arthur still sat glued to his perch, not even chasing away the turkey vultures that circled overhead.

But that 's due to natural predators like vultures that pick them off on a beach or predatory fish that are waiting offshore .

Following on their heels are the predators of the savanna- lion, cheetah, wild dog, jackal, hyena and vultures.

In the coming weeks, Wall Street's vultures will pick over Lehman's still-warm body and wait for one or two more victims to come their way.

He's also found bones of a dozen different bird species, including vultures, cranes, ducks and geese.

The vultures try to move in and are prevented by waving sticks and shouts.

Never mind, at least the vultures have left you alone now.

But company engineers had noticed that vultures often gathered while they were repairing holes in other pipelines.

I glimpsed, between the hills, sea and white surf curling on golden sand; vultures and buzzards floated overhead.

Vultures circle overhead, and many more are clustered on the grass, a few meters from the funeral bier.

The earth is parched and cracked. Men and women come together like broods of vultures over a stinking carcass, to mate and fly apart again.

And although they may not be the most appealing creatures, vultures form a crucialcleanupclean-up team.

Those that were high up were mostly vultures and in the bright sun they were mere specks, tacking against the breeze.

The flight attendant became so irritated with the airport vultures that the flight was abruptly cancelled.

This story, biblically challenging, is not signposted on the vultures' enclosure.

Researchers at Tel Aviv University say that a number of the tagged vultures have reached Saudi Arabia since the study began.

In that medium, he's built a whole range of animals, including peacocks, ibex, moose, sheep, vultures, sharks, and deer.

The sheer number has forced them to choose cremation over traditional "sky burials, " in which vultures eat the dead.

Outside, by the riverbank, vultures hovered menacingly in a cobalt sky.

He wanders about--food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

African vultures are struggling due to habitat loss, a lack of food, and collisions with power lines.

Insects and vultures are said to be repelled by the burning of myrrh.

"The vultures are out there, sitting on the wall, " says Geoffrey van Orden, a Tory MEP.

for a chest with shield subject of form design hoary head bald eagles (vultures).

But from the foot-binding cloth hanging from the elm tree Second Granny doddered into the panting of wild dogs and the wings of vultures.

In the absence of vultures, they have been reduced to rigging their towers with solar reflectors to shrivel the corpses.

But because they thrive on the misfortunes of others, they are inevitably referred to as vultures or grave-dancers.

Mr Wolfe Murray says that after wars and natural disasters adoption agencies descend like "vultures" to find suitable children.

The Berber people of northern Africa brought with them goats, which then became an abundant food source for the vultures.

one old tamarind, with vultures on top and a flock of parrots.

Mississippi kites now nest in New England. Black vultures, once just vagrants this far north, thrive in New Haven.

As we might imagine vultures to say: "Where there's life . . . "

During your upkeep, remove the top creature card in your graveyard from the game or bury Circling Vultures .

The poisoning is deliberate, although it's actually aimed at lions and jackals rather than vultures.

they were king vultures; i recognized them immediately.

These two vultures will hang above us to the end of the war.

Saving India's vultures from extinction is not merely a sentimental cause, for the birds have a vital role in the country's ecology.

Remaining vultures grab slabs of softened gristle and greedily devour them.

Why can't those|vultures leave me a one?

He felt the creeping of fate, the circling of wolves, the hover of vultures.

The poisoning is deliberate, althoughisit's actually aimed at lions and jackals rather than vultures.

In South Korea and Japan they have often been demonised in the media as opportunists, vultures and tax dodgers.

Here's Baloo. He comes to save Mowgli. The vultures come to save Mowgli.

The plot: Israeli scientists are training vultures to spy on Arab countries.

Even the hyenas can't get close when these vultures are dining at nature's buffet table.

I ate snails, vultures, rabbits, snakes, and anything that had life.

condors; turkey buzzards; king vultures.

The vultures are gathering. They circle over your pathetic castle.

The Zoroastrians in Iran, for example, traditionally leave corpses in towers for vultures to devour, so the bodies do not pollute the soil.

Within hours, the vultures would have stripped them.

Vultures introduced to the Canary Islands have evolved larger bodies (Agudo et al. , 2010).

Vultures circled overhead as the lions fed.

Even without the vultures' problems, there are plenty of other windmills to tilt at.

But the other day, he saw something that furrowed his brow: vultures.

At the same time, I overheard the vultures plotting in the Jacuzzis of the Aspen Club and Spa.

Egyptian vultures (Neophron percnopterus) may have followed human migrants to the Canary Islands about 2500 years ago.

Most people take without giving. Vultures don't get lonesome.

This story gave rise to the idiom "One Arrow Kills Two Vultures" .

The vultures are afraid but Mowgli is not afraid.

Everywhere you turn, there're vultures and thieves at your back.

Mowgli's a lone in the jungle. Here are the vultures.

Even if all does go well, though, it could take 15 years for the country to become safe for wild vultures.

The vultures fly high over my fortress. Turn your gaze towards me.

Which means the vultures have an entire fresh kongoni carcass all to themselves.

Animal flesh that rots is attractive to vultures.

In fact, it is a bird of prey that belongs to the same order as hawks, eagles, and vultures.

Stop! Look! Many vultures are waiting there!

The vultures are circling above the dead lion.

In India, vultures also play a vital cultural role.

Vultures are picking at a lion's carcass.

As the first cut is made, the vultures crowd closer; but three men with long sticks wave them away.

The vultures are Mowgli''''s friends.

Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.

In some, debris is perched in jagged branches like vultures.

But vultures have their place.

Nighthawks (9) and black vultures (17) make more impressive gliders.

But the vultures are circling.

Q: Why won't vultures eat dead lawyers?

When a kill is made, vultures appear.

Culture-vultures will book their seats in Shakespeare's Globe in 1599 or the Cotton Club, Harlem, in the 1920s.

Don't panic, because there are vultures out there.

Vultures aren't famous for their table manners.

And they have many notable virtues. They're the most cooperative and the most social of all vultures.

You have to take it, and protect it, or these globalist vultures will eat you alive.

The Korean superstar has told the media Vultures that he's settling well and he's targeting a regular starting spot

The club's president, Jean-Louis Triaud, told the media vultures about his frustration in pursuit of Chamakh

Giant petrels are the vultures of Antarctica,

Gee, but it's hard when one lowers one's guard to the vultures,

Vultures Diversify On Islands, Die On Mainland

you hear that , vultures , we forfeit . let ' s go

There''''re vultures and thieves at your back

Cause vultures and thieves at your back ,

And vultures are not drifting along

Why India Needs Its Dying Vultures

There's vultures and thieves at your back

He was starving so we're the lone vultures

vultures are waiting for what's left of us

re vultures and thieves at your back

Show 'em how to move in a room full 'o vultures