This essay examines how military, technology, and nature converge in the Israeli griffon vulture project. The vulture is “good to think with” about settler colonialism and how it manifests in Palestine-Israel. Identified by Israeli conservationists as one in a handful of biblical species, the griffon vulture is subject to intense management aimed at making the landscape holy again. The griffon breeding project is also a technology for advancing Israel’s ecological exceptionalism and its imperial control beyond territorial boundaries. More broadly, the Israeli military’s involvement with nature protection functions as an act of greenwashing and as a way to exhibit and promote patriotic sentiments.