The Black vulture (lat. (λατ. Aegypius monachus), also known as the cinereous vulture, monk vulture, or Eurasian black vulture, is a rare and local resident in Greece. Much more widespread in the past, both on the mainland and on Crete, the species has dramatically declined over the last decades and is now confined only in the Dadia-Lefkimmi-Soufli Forest National Park, which is home to the only breeding population of the Black vulture in the Balkans. The black vulture is the symbol species of the area.
It has a preference for wooded semi-mountainous and mountainous areas and nests in mature pines surrounded by small openings or low vegetation, on very steep slopes. It seeks its food in pine forests, oak forests, beech forests with forest glades, meadows, and small fields. It feeds on small and medium-sized mammals.
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