White-backed vulture / Weißrückengeier (Gyps africanus)

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Wikipedia: White-backed vulture Source: OTHER 1200px-2012-white-backed-vulture.jpg
Classification: Genus Gyps; Subfamily True hawks (Accipitrinae); Family Accipitridae
General: The white-backed vulture (Gyps africanus) is an Old World vulture in the family Accipitridae, which also includes eagles, kites, buzzards and hawks. It is closely related to the European griffon vulture, G. fulvus. Sometimes it is called African white-backed vulture to distinguish it from the Oriental white-backed vulture — nowadays usually called white-rumped vulture — to which it was formerly believed to be closely related. [more]

🔍 No documented observation