Charlie Hamilton James's Image

Within a frantic scrum of critically endangered Rüppell’s griffon vultures, Charlie captured this individual ripping the flesh from a wildebeest’s windpipe in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.

Vultures are nature’s clean-up team. Powerful beaks and claws tear corpses open – stripping meat from bones with ease, their featherless heads and necks keeping them clean.