Here is another photo showing off the beauty of the cape vulture. I love their piercing amber eyes encircled in turquoise. I love their magenta neck encircled in downy feathers. And then you have the body covered in gorgeous white, beige, and light blue-grey feathers, tipped with mahogany wing feathers. And with those claws you would never imagine that they weren’t hunters, but merely nature’s recyclers, feeding off the leftovers of the true carnivores. These vultures have their wings clipped to keep them at the ranch (they are all injured birds and would not survive on their own in the wild). I would love to see these birds encircling in flocks in the wild, what a sight it must be. Taken at Cango Wildlife Ranch, South Africa, September 2009.
