Very impressive photo, and very impressive creature.

Yes, you can definitely imagine that being the face of a gryphon I'd say.

ah the griffon vulture, I had heard of them on a documentory a long time ago, it was about how people had eradicated almost all the wildlife on the matterhorn in the swiss alps, and they mentioned that griffon vultures were one of the native species that had disappeared, and environmentalists are now trying to reintroduce them, along with many other beasts, back to the matterhorn, so that people will have much more than a few mountain goats to look at while climbing the mountain.