Name: Chinese neophron percnopterus beard carved figure - Le Sahel lost beard moustache carving vulture
Large birds of prey. Length 105-133 cm, weight 3.5 ~ 5.5 kg. The black and silver luster, forehead and head covered with fluffy feather grayish brown. The body of light brown, gray and black with feathers. The general body is slightly larger than the male. Iris yellow / red; beak gray; foot gray. Cry: usually not called. Breed a loud whistle.
Hi inhabits open areas, like grassland, tundra, highland and Heather wasteland, love also settled in the seaside and inland rock or cliff.
Located in the west of Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, southwest Sichuan and Tibet, as resident. Food rot. Long gliding and circling in the air, feeding on rotting carcasses, where other scavengers cannot digest, the bones are thrown from high altitude to rocks. Neophron percnopterus using energy saving way to fly - flying, long time, long distance around the block, because the wing tip, agitation wings and air friction from a flute whistle. One day can soar 9 ~ 10 hours, flight height of more than 7000 meters. They can also use a slight rotation of the tail and primary feathers, from the ground 3 to 5 meters in height, the ground for rapid flight.
Hu vulture's vision is very strong, in the retina of the band zone foveal visual cells have 150 ~ 2 million, much higher than the human in the same area of the 200 thousand visual cells. They also pay much attention to observation of the crow, kite, jackal, hyena necrophagous animal, when Raven find food and blare, neophron percnopterus flew over for, and the Raven aside; and when the raven flies found dangerous, neophron percnopterus quickly will escape.