How to Use bearded vulture in a Sentence

bearded vulture

noun
  • In their study, the team spent years analysing the nests of bearded vultures—a species that is threatened in Europe—in southern Spain.
    — Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • In Spain, researchers studied a dozen bearded vulture nests between 2008 and 2014.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The traditional image of a bird’s nest is a small, roughly circular twig structure in a tree, but the nests of bearded vultures look significantly different.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The bearded vulture, a large bird of prey with an unusual diet consisting primarily of bones, has long fascinated ornithologists.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
  • In southern Spain, where the researchers recovered the nests, bearded vultures have been locally extinct for 70 to 130 years, according to the study.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The nest hoards of bearded vultures in southern Spain, where the species is extinct, were found to harbor such human artifacts as a crossbow bolt, a slingshot, a wooden lance, and a shoe with an approximate age of 675 years.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The nest hoards of bearded vultures in southern Spain, where the species is extinct, were found to harbor such human artifacts as a crossbow bolt, a slingshot, a wooden lance, and a shoe with an approximate age of 675 years.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Archaeologists in Spain recently published findings revealing the remarkable contents of bearded vultures' nests – including traces of the Middle Ages.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List categorized the bearded vulture in 2014 as near threatened.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025

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