Vulture

Vulture
World	Dry Canyon Cliff Town Canyon Speedway Icy Peak Lost Fleet Dragonfly Falls
First appearance	Spyro the Dragon (1998)
Latest appearance	Spyro Reignited Trilogy (2018)

A Vulture is a type of bird that can be found in three types of appearances, black feathers and white collar, blue feathers, and brown feathers. They are commonly depicted as enemies to Spyro as they actively swoop down to harm him with their beaks or talons.

Charactertistics

Physical Appearance

In Spyro the Dragon, the black-feathered Vultures can be found in Cliff Town and Dry Canyon sitting on thick wooden poles.

In Spyro: Year of the Dragon, Blue-feathered vultures can be found in Canyon Speedway and Icy Peak, flying around in the skies of those worlds. Spyro can either fly to them and flame them, or shoot at them with cannons (in the latter world, cannon is recommended). They can later be found in Lost Fleet, flying around in the sky. Spyro will have to shoot at them with cannons to hit them.

In Spyro: A Hero's Tail, brown-feathered vultures can be found in various parts of Dragonfly Falls, flying around in the sky.

Tactics

If Spyro comes close enough to a Vulture, they will leave their perches and fly toward him, attempting to attack him with their beaks. Their flight speed is slow and therefore they're easy to kill. If Spyro dodges their attack, they will fly back to their perch and won't attack anymore until they reach it. The vultures are vulnerable to both flame and charge attack. They are also used as bludgeoning weapons by Bird Wranglers.

In A Hero's Tail, Spyro gets too close to an area vultures are circling around, they will dive towards him and attempt to scratch him with their claws, or drop bombs at him. They also appear in the turret minigame in Coastal Remains, where they and Crabs have to be defeated in order to save the baby turtles, and in Cloudy Speedway.

Gallery

• A vulture in Canyon Speedway
  A vulture in Canyon Speedway
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  Icy Peak
• Lost Fleet
  Lost Fleet
• Dragonfly Falls
  Dragonfly Falls
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  Spyro Reignited Trilogy
• A vulture as a Spyro Reignited Trilogy trophy.
  A vulture as a Spyro Reignited Trilogy trophy.

Trivia

• In the Reignited Trilogy when the Vultures swoop at Spyro, they attack by clawing at him with their talons instead of jabbing with their beaks like in the original.