Ardea
Official journal of the Netherlands Ornithologists' Union

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Verhagen M. (1991) A Black Vulture Aegypius monachus from Roman Valkenburg The Netherlands. ARDEA 79 (3): 439-442
The former occurrence of Aegypius monachus in The Netherlands is attested by a bill fragment from the Roman period excavation at Valkenburg (South-Holland). The plausibility of the occurrence of this species in the Dutch prehistoric landscape and in the cultural context of the Roman settlement will be discussed.


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