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The white-backed vulture, like many African vultures, has suffered a rapid decline. When it was first assessed in 1988 it was classified as a Least concern species owing to a large range and population.
A lappet-faced vulture amongst white-backed vultures and Ruepell's griffons, illustrating its size. Overall, the lappet-faced vulture is blackish above with a strongly contrasting white thigh feathers. The black feathers on the back of African vultures are lined with brown, while Arabian birds are dark brown rather than black above.
An African White-backed vulture (closest to camera) at the VulPro rehabilitation center near Pretoria, South Africa. The center has cared for over 1,600 vultures during its operation, which ...
In 2000, a vulture took up residence on the Channel Island of Guernsey. [10] Griffon vulture beside a white-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis), showing the difference in size and coloration between the two species. In Cyprus, there was a colony of fewer than 30 Eurasian griffon vultures at Episkopi, in the south of the island in 2006. [11]
A map of Botswana. This is a list of ... White-backed vulture, Gyps africanus (B) Cape griffon, ... In size they range from 8 cm (3.1 in) to 1 m (3.3 ft) in length ...
The Rüppell's vulture is a large vulture, noticeably outsizing the closely related white-backed vulture, with which they often occur in the wild. Adults are 85 to 103 cm (33 to 41 in) long, [ 3 ] [ 6 ] with a wingspan of 2.26 to 2.6 m (7 ft 5 in to 8 ft 6 in), and a weight that ranges from 6.4 to 9 kg (14 to 20 lb).
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Himalayan vulture Gyps himalayensis: The Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau: White-backed vulture Gyps africanus: Savannahs of west and east Africa: Cape vulture Gyps coprotheres: Southern Africa: Sarcogyps Lesson, 1842: Red-headed vulture Sarcogyps calvus: The Indian Subcontinent, with small disjunct populations in Southeast Asia: Trigonoceps ...