Vulture joins paragliders as they soar above Spanish mountains

Vulture joins paragliders as they soar above Spanish mountains
In 2020, video footage taken over Algodonales, in Andalucia, southern Spain, showed a trained vulture flying alongside a pair of paragliders as they soared over mountains.Show more

British instructor Scott Mason pioneered the activity, known as 'parahawking', which sees trained birds guiding him to thermal columns.

The columns of warm air provide a lift which allows Scott to make his aerial trips longer while also making the experience more birdlike by mimicking their flight patterns.