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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 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.
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 .
Lappet-faced vulture; R. Red-headed vulture; T. Torgos tracheliotos negevensis; W. White-headed vulture This page was last edited on 22 July 2022, at 22:33 ...
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On the 20th of June 2019, the corpses of 468 white-backed vultures, 17 white-headed vultures, 28 hooded vultures, 14 lappet-faced vultures and 10 cape vultures, altogether 537 vultures, besides 2 tawny eagles, were found in northern Botswana.
A total 537 vultures perished, 468 white-backed vultures, 28 hooded vultures, 17 white-headed vultures, 14 lappet-faced vultures, and 10 cape vultures. Furthermore, 2 tawny eagles succumbed to the poison. For such slow-breeding and long-lived birds, this was a very heavy blow to their population and a major setback to any conservation efforts.
The red-headed vulture is very similar in appearance to its larger relative the Lappet-faced vulture in Africa and Arabia, even being historically placed in the genus Torgos [6] A female red-headed vulture (left) and a Lappet-faced vulture (right).