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Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus)
This portrait was done for practice, so I could work on some oil painting techniques. The subject is one I... more
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Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus)
This portrait was done for practice, so I could work on some oil painting techniques. The subject is one I hope to do a more formal painting of some day, the Cinerous Vulture, which is also sometimes called the Black, or Eurasian Black Vulture, not to be confused with the unrelated American species called the Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus), which is in the family Cathartidae, that includes the condors and is restricted to the western hemisphere.
The Cinerous is huge, and can weigh in at about 14 kg (around 30 pounds) with a wing span that can exceed 3.1 meters – more than ten feet! Males are smaller than females. Someone said they look like a flying barn door, but are very graceful flyers, truly masters of air currents as I saw for myself when, awestruck, I witnessed my first ones in the wild, in southern Portugal, some years ago. This species has a disjunct range, being found in Spain, Portugal, southern France and other pa...
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Barry MacKay
Although just a simple study, this is one cool bird and I think the image would look great on a lot of the FAA products. I hope to paint the species in habitat some day. I've seen them in the wild and in flight they resemble a flying barn door...very big birds!