Pharaoh Chicken. Egyptian Vulture is a photograph by Jenny Rainbow which was uploaded on July 3rd, 2013.
Pharaoh Chicken. Egyptian Vulture
Egyptian Vulture.
The Egyptian vulture is a small white bird, with black flight feathers, a bare yellow face and an untidy feather mane... more
Title
Pharaoh Chicken. Egyptian Vulture
Artist
Jenny Rainbow
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Egyptian Vulture.
The Egyptian vulture is a small white bird, with black flight feathers, a bare yellow face and an untidy feather mane cascading from the head and neck. The feet are weak and more adapted for running than for climbing or grasping. Carrion and scraps are usually the main food, however, the bird is known to take a stone in its bill and hurl it at an ostrich egg until the shell cracks open. The immature birds are plain brown and easily confused with a number of other vultures. The diamond-shaped tail is diagnostic, especially in flight.
Both sexes build an untidy stick nest in rock clefts and crevices on narrow ledges that provide a view of the surrounding territory. The female lays one or two white or pinkish eggs, which hatch in about 42 days. The chicks are fed by regurgitation, by both parents. The young birds leave the nest at about three months and soar with their parents in search of food.
The Egyptian vulture, the most common vulture in the Old World, is sometimes called Pharaoh Chicken, because one of the early pharaohs forbade anyone to kill an Egyptian vulture under pain of death. He reasoned the clean-up job these birds did was too important to lose even one bird.
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July 3rd, 2013
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Comments (8)
Jenny Rainbow
Thank you to the buyer from Temecula, CA - United States who recently purchased a T-Shirt - Black - XLarge of Pharaoh Chicken, hope you'll enjoy it for long time! Blessings!
Donna Kennedy
Only a face a mother could love, but at least you took a fantastic shot of it Jenny :) v/f
Sandy Tolman
Amazing portrait of bird - such clarity in details of eyes and beak! Almost surreal - could easily imagine as a creature constructed as from a parallel world or other realm for a movie. So much life in the eyes - lit like ruby by the light - more like eye of dragon than avian . .