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Neophron percnopterus (Egyptian Vulture)

English: Egyptian Vulture, Indian Vulture, Scavenger  Vulture
Russian: Стервятник, Обыкновенный стервятник
German: Schmutzgeier
French: Vautour percnoptere
Mongolian: Дэлт ёлон, Дэлт бүргэд
Japanese: エジプトハゲワシ (Ejiputo-hagewashi)

Body Length: 55-65 cm
Wing span: 155 -170 cm

Habitat: Rare summer visitor mainly to mountains in Mediterranean area, more common only in Spain/NW Africa and Turkey; winters in Africa. Declining. Food carrion, offal at refuse dumps, etc. Nests on cliffs.

Identification: Medium-large. Flight silhouette characteristic, with wedge-shaped tail (slightly shorter than width of wing) and small head with narrow, long bill; wings comparatively broad and well ‘fingered’. Had on silhouette fairly flat when soaring; more arched when gliding, with primaries lowered. Flight with rather slow and deep wingbeats. Peculiar white centres of flight-feathers on upperparts unique. Adult: Body, head, tail, lesser and median wing-coverts white; head, neck, breast and mantle with a varying degree of yellowish or grey-brown tinge. Strong contrast on underside between white parts and black flight-feathers. Yellow cere and bare skin on head show up at some distance.

  • Juvenile: Dark brown, with strongly contrasting ochrous-buff (bleaching to whitish) broad tips to tail-feathers, upperwing-coverts and feathers of mantle, rump, scapulars and lower belly/vent. With wear, this plumage becomes more dull brown, lacking in contrast. There is some variation, too: some juveniles have less prominent light tips and look more uniform brown than others.
  • Immature: Plumage less distinctly patterned, more dull brown, with pale or whitish feathers first appearing in 2nd summer on upper mantle, rump/lower back, belly and wing-coverts. Adult pattern gradually acquired over c. 5 years.

 

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