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Egyptian Vultures Immature(L) and Adult (R)🦅

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SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae
Birds

🦅Egyptian Vulture

Neophron percnopterus (Linnaeus, 1758)

白兀鷲（學名：Neophron percnopterus），又名埃及禿鷲，是一種稀少的禿鷲。它們分佈在歐洲西南部及非洲北部至南亞。它們的翼底呈黑白色，尾巴呈楔狀。它們有時會用石頭敲破鳥蛋，是少數懂得使用工具的鳥類之一。在溫帶繁殖的群落會向南遷徙過冬，而在熱帶的多是留鳥。它們的數量於20世紀有所下降，而在島嶼中的群落則特別瀕危。

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Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

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

Everything we know about the Egyptian Vulture

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
37 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

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

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

Volume l
2.1 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 Egyptian Vulture yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAccipitriformes
  5. ›familyAccipitridae
  6. ›genusNeophron
  7. ›speciesNeophron percnopterus
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  3. familyAccipitridae
  4. genusNeophron
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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. genusNeophron
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Closest relative on this site
🦅 Bearded vulture — last shared an ancestor ≈ 26 million years ago.
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smutsgam (sv), Schmutzgeier (de), Обыкновенный стервятник (ru), aufrany comú (ca), sup mrchožravý (cs), Ådselgrib (da) … and 28 more languages
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