Hotels-live.com - photo by @chamiltonjames (Charlie Hamilton James) a Ruppells Griffon Vulture winks a fly out of its eye whilst standing over the carcass of a dead wildebeest, in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. Despite appearances vultures are pretty

Hotels-live.com - photo by @chamiltonjames (Charlie Hamilton James) a Ruppells Griffon Vulture winks a fly out of its eye whilst standing over the carcass of a dead wildebeest, in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. Despite appearances vultures are pretty clean birds; when they're not sticking their heads in dead animals. Ruppells vultures necks are almost bald with just very fine feathers to keep them from getting coated in blood. This bird has a pretty full crop (the bulge at the base of its neck) and is drying its wings - both signs that it is relaxed after a good meal. The flies in the Serengeti get particularly bad in February and March as they follow the wildebeest migration into the southern Serengeti. Vultures arrive at this time too as its when the wildebeest calve and mortality is at its highest. @Hotelslive by natgeo instagram.com/p/rvCnhQoVUH/ Follow #Instagram @Hotelspaschers instagram.com/hotelspaschers and @Voyageslive #Twitter #TeamFollowBack #Natgeo #Voyage #Travel #TFB #FollowTrick www.facebook.com/125048940862168/photos/a.801751693191886... via Hotels-live.com www.facebook.com/pages/p/125048940862168 #Retweet #TeamFollowBack #F4F #TityFollowTrain via http://flic.kr/p/osRCtD