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

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SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae
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🦅Cinereous Vulture

Aegypius monachus (Linnaeus, 1766)

禿鷲（學名：Aegypius monachus，英語：cinereous vulture）是一種大型的猛禽，屬於鷹科，分布於大部分溫帶的歐亞大陸，體長為1.2米（3英尺11英寸），翼展達到3.1米（10英尺），最大體重為14公斤（31磅），是最大的舊大陸鷲類，也是鷹科家族中最大的成員。 禿鷲也被稱為歐亞黑禿鷲（Eurasian black vulture）、黑禿鷲（black vulture）、僧鷲（monk vulture）、狗头鹫、狗头雕、座山雕等。 Aegypius monachus 是最大型的猛禽之一，在生態系統中扮演著重要的角色，通過食用動物屍體來減少疾病的傳播。由於其飲食習慣，這些禿鷲經常暴露於多種病原體中。2015年對禿鷲的胃部和免疫防禦系統進行了一項研究，並測序了其整個基因組。通過比較禿鷲與白頭海鵰的基因組，研究得以找到與呼吸、免疫防禦反應以及胃酸分泌有關的正向選擇基因變異，這些變異使得禿鷲能夠消化屍體。

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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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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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Tarsus length
0.13 m
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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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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
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  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.
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Mönchsgeier (de), 禿鷲 (zh), voltor negre (ca), sup hnědý (cs), Munkegrib (da), Aegypius monachus (es) … and 27 more languages
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