Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus)

Other Names (World)
Egyptian Vulture, White Scavenger Vulture, Scavenger Vulture, Pharaoh's Chicken

Family
Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)

Size
55 - 70 cm
Wingspan: 146 - 175 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Habitat
Lowland and montane regions over open, often arid, country.

Range (Guide)

Afghanistan (B), Albania (B), Algeria, Angola, Armenia (B), Azerbaijan (B) (NB), Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina (B), Bulgaria (B) (P), Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, China (mainland), C�te dIvoire, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska) (B), Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France (B), Gambia, Georgia (B) (P), Ghana, Gibraltar (P), Greece (B) (P), Guinea, Guinea-bissau, India (B), Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B) (NB), Iraq (B) (NB), Israel (B) (P), Italy (B) (P), Jordan (B) (P), Kazakhstan (B), Kenya, Kuwait (B), Kyrgyzstan (B), Lebanon (B), Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B), Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Moldova [Republic of] (B), Montenegro (B), Morocco, Namibia, Nepal (B), Niger, Nigeria, Oman (B) (NB), Pakistan (B), Palestinian Authority Territories (B), Portugal (B) (P), Romania (B), Russia (European) (B), Saudi Arabia (B), Senegal, Serbia (B), Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain (B) (NB) (P), Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic (B), Tajikistan (B), Tanzania [United Republic of], Tunisia, Turkey (B) (NB), Turkmenistan (B), Uganda, Ukraine (B) (NB), United Arab Emirates (B) (NB), Uzbekistan (B), Western Sahara (B), Yemen (B) (NB) (P), Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Botswana, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Lesotho, Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Norway, Poland, Qatar, Russia (Central Asian), Slovakia (Slovak Republic), Sri Lanka, Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands, Sweden, Switzerland, Togo, United Kingdom.

Population
Estimated population is 21,000 - 67,200 (2011) and decreasing.

Status EN
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Habits
Usually solitary. Small groups at feeding sites.

Food
Carrion, tortoises, organic waste, insects, young vertebrates, eggs, animal faeces.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (5)...)

Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) [XC654205]
by id from Valle de Escuain, Huesca, Arag\u00f3n, Spain (alarm call, call)

Egyptian Vulture (Neophron) [XC585339]
by Eduardo Realinho from Algodres, Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, Guarda, Portugal (call)

Subspecies
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

percnopterus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Southern Europe east to central Asia (eastern Kazakhstan) and north-western India, and southern through northern Africa, Arabia and Sahel zone to northern Tanzania, south-western Angola and north-western Namibia. Also Canary Is, Cape Verde Is and Socotra.
ginginianus (Latham, 1790) - Nepal and India (except north-western).
majorensis Don�zar et al., 2002 - Canary Islands (Fuerteventura I.).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) - 10 files

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