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The white-backed vulture (Gyps africanus) is an Old World vulture in the family Accipitridae, which also includes eagles, kites, buzzards and hawks. It is the most common vulture species in the continent of Africa .
The Vulture and the Little Girl, also known as The Struggling Girl, is a photograph by Kevin Carter which first appeared in The New York Times on 26 March 1993. It is a photograph of a frail famine-stricken boy, initially believed to be a girl, [ 1 ] who had collapsed in the foreground with a hooded vulture eyeing him from nearby.
A vulture is a bird of prey that scavenges on carrion. There are 23 extant species of vulture (including condors ). [ 2 ] Old World vultures include 16 living species native to Europe , Africa , and Asia ; New World vultures are restricted to North and South America and consist of seven identified species, all belonging to the Cathartidae family .
White-rumped vulture in Desert National Park Underwing pattern of an adult. The white-rumped vulture is a typical, medium-sized vulture, with an unfeathered head and neck, very broad wings, and short tail feathers. It is much smaller than the Eurasian Griffon. It has a white neck ruff.
The Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus), also called the white scavenger vulture or pharaoh's chicken, is a small Old World vulture in the monotypic genus Neophron. It is widely distributed from the Iberian Peninsula , North Africa , West Asia and India .
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 ...