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Aegypius monachus, Catalan Pyrenees, Spain S4E7659 (25191007486)🦅

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SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae
Birds

🦅Cinereous Vulture

Aegypius monachus (Linnaeus, 1766)

Der Mönchsgeier oder Kuttengeier (Aegypius monachus; früher Vultur monachus) ist eine Vogelart, die zu den Altweltgeiern (Aegypiinae) gehört. Mit einer Länge von über einem Meter handelt es sich um den neben dem etwa gleich großen Bartgeier größten Greifvogel Europas. Er brütet vorwiegend in wilden Bergwäldern und kommt in Europa fast nur noch auf der Iberischen Halbinsel, auf Mallorca und auf der südlichen Balkanhalbinsel vor. Man unterscheidet keine Unterarten.

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Also called
Black Vulture, Eurasian Black Vulture
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
9.32 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
39 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Cinereous Vulture

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
9.32 kg
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 9.63 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.37 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.73 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.09 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.13 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
39 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Scavenger
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Forest
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
9.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Cinereous Vulture yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAccipitriformes
  5. ›familyAccipitridae
  6. ›genusAegypius
  7. ›speciesAegypius monachus
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  3. familyAccipitridae
  4. genusAegypius
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  11. familyAccipitridae
  12. genusAegypius
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Closest relative on this site
🐦 Griffon Vulture — last shared an ancestor ≈ 16 million years ago.
In other languages
Mönchsgeier (de), 禿鷲 (zh), voltor negre (ca), sup hnědý (cs), Munkegrib (da), Aegypius monachus (es) … and 27 more languages
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