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The lappet-faced vulture is a very large species, ranking as the longest and largest winged vulture in its range, behind the closely related cinereous vulture, although some co-occurring Gyps vultures tend to be heavier on average, especially the Cape vulture and Eurasian griffon. [5]
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 .
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]
Vultures control these pests and disease vectors indirectly through competition for carcasses. [37] On 20 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
Police are investigating after the Dallas Zoo reported the "suspicious" death of an endangered vulture, the latest unsettling incident at the zoo in the last two weeks. Endangered vulture dies at ...
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White-headed vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis: Sub-Saharan Africa. Extinct populations have occurred in Indonesia. [7] Torgos Kaup, 1828: Lappet-faced vulture Torgos tracheliotos: Sub-Saharan Africa, the Sinai and Negev deserts and north-west Saudi Arabia: Aegypius Savigny, 1809: Cinereous vulture Aegypius monachus
Lappet-faced vulture Torgos tracheliotos: Sub-Saharan Africa, the Sinai and Negev deserts and northwestern Saudi Arabia: Trigonoceps: White-headed vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis: Sub-Saharan Africa, formerly native to Indonesia during the Late Pleistocene †Cryptogyps: Native to Australia during the Middle or Late Pleistocene