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5 March 2009

Cinereous Vulture

Cinereous Vulture (灰禿鷲)
Armenia (2007)
4th December, 2007. Yerevan

Armenia is in the middle of Asia, neighbourhood of Iran and Turkey. However it has best fellowship with European countries and related unions. It issues beautiful stamps since it gained independence from former-USSR, above example is one of nice issue in 2007.

Cinereous Vulture is widely live from Mediterranean Sea to western part of China, include most mid-Asian countries. Mostly can be found in high level's grasslands and mountains, it doesn't have feather as it can't be cleaned when eating dead animals. In Tibet, it also eats dead human when locals hold sky burial.