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Vultures in the nest, Orchha, MP, India edit🦅

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SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae
Birds

🦅Indian Vulture

Gyps indicus (Scopoli, 1786)

El buitre de pico largo​ (Gyps indicus) es una especie de ave accipitriforme​ de la familia Accipitridae en grave peligro de extinción. Este miembro de la familia Accipitridae sólo habita ciertas zonas montañosas de la India y otros países del Sudeste asiático. Algunos autores afirman que las poblaciones de Camboya forman una especie aparte, Gyps tenuirostris. No se conocen subespecies.​

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Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
5.51 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Everything we know about the Indian Vulture

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Body mass
5.51 kg
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Tail length
0.24 m
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Wing length
0.59 m
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Beak length
0.07 m
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Tarsus length
0.1 m
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Trophic level
Scavenger
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Habitat
Grassland
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Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Volume l
5.5 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 Indian Vulture yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAccipitriformes
  5. ›familyAccipitridae
  6. ›genusGyps
  7. ›speciesGyps indicus
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  3. familyAccipitridae
  4. genusGyps
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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. genusGyps
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In other languages
hosszúcsőrű keselyű (hu), نسر هندي (ar), voltor de l'Índia (ca), sup indický (cs), buitre picofino (es), intiankorppikotka (fi) … and 24 more languages
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