A scientific team found that vultures have different diet patterns depending on the place where they breed, regardless of the available resources.

This indicates that they have different “tastes” by cultural transmission among individuals of the same population. Until now, it was believed that vultures were opportunistic species that consumed any type of carrion without indiscriminately.

A scientific team led by the Miguel Hernández University of Elche with the collaboration of the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC has analysed the basic patterns of movements of several populations of griffon vultures in Spain. Their movements are influenced by individual sex, breeding region and other environmental factors.

Results show that the management of these species, which exploit very large areas, cannot be approached at the local level and requires the collaboration...

A research team from the Doñana Biological Station-CSIC and the Miguel Hernández University tracked griffon and cinereous vultures and white storks to study their flight patterns
These species mostly fly under 1,300 meters so the flight altitudes overlapped the legal flight altitude limit set for general aviation, which is 900 meters.