With its facial Carnival features, its diabolic eye and his giant wing span, the bearded vulture had all ingredients it needed to become a legend. This bone-eating vulture, which was already extinct at the beginning of the 20th century in the Alps, is now gliding again above the mountains. His return is not a coincidence. Two biologists, one from Switzerland and one from France, tell the fabulous story of this extraordinary predator bird. Now, the bearded vulture belongs to the best and most protected bird species in Europe. However, in the fragile balance of nature, nothing is won yet. Which menaces will wait for the vulture?