The cleaner of the savannah
The African white-backed vulture lives in the trees of the savannah, nesting in the high branches and feeding on the carcasses of large herbivores. Several hundred of them can be found on a single carcass, which they clean completely in just a few minutes…
A common vulture in Africa, nevertheless its numbers have declined in recent years. The reasons: the conversion of savannah into agricultural land, persecution, hunting…
Our white-backed vultures share a large aviary with griffon vultures … which you can enter. Exception made from December to April (surroundings): they are then in full breeding season!