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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.
Torgos tracheliotos negevensis, the Arabian lappet-faced vulture or Arabian vulture, [1] is an endangered bird endemic to the western and southern reaches of the Arabian Peninsula. It is a giant subspecies of the more widespread lappet-faced vulture .
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Torgos is a genus of Old World vulture that contains two species, an extant species, the lappet-faced vulture (Torgos tracheliotos) and the fossil species Torgos platycephalus from the late Pleistocene of Azerbajian and an unnamed fossil species from middle Pleistocene China. [1]
White-backed vulture Gyps africanus: Savannahs of West and East Africa: Cape vulture Gyps coprotheres: Southern Africa: Necrosyrtes: Hooded vulture Necrosyrtes monachus: Sub-Saharan Africa: Sarcogyps: Red-headed vulture Sarcogyps calvus: The Indian Subcontinent, with small disjunct populations in Southeast Asia: Torgos: Lappet-faced vulture ...
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 .
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In October 2015, it was further uplisted to Critically Endangered because the decline had reach a magnitude that puts the vulture at an extreme risk of extinction. [1] The population size of the white-backed vulture has been decreasing significantly within the past few decades. In 1992, the population was estimated at 270,000.