white-backed vulture
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The zoo is part of the breeding program for white-backed vultures.

The White-backed Vulture, which is slightly smaller and has a shorter neck.

Some birds seen are the Black-headed oriole and the White-backed vulture.

It has an abundant and diverse bird life, including the highest density of nesting white-backed vultures in Africa.

A solitary white rhinoceros treaded gingerly onto a river sandbar, watched by a white-backed vulture.

The White-backed Vulture is a bird of the family Accipitridae which also includes eagles and hawks.

These are large vultures, noticeably outsizing the closely related White-backed Vulture, with which they often co-occur in the wild.

They have mourned a white-backed vulture's nest that was fine yesterday, but is now torn up, for which they blame a smug-looking baboon sitting nearby.

White-backed vulture (Gyps africanus)

Amid a flock of white-backed vultures feeding off a carcass, we found a solitary maribou stork with its distinctive ugly red head and long beak.

White-backed Vulture - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

It is home for the critically endangered White-backed Vulture, and Long Billed Vulture.

Oriental White-backed Vulture (Gyps bengalensis)

The White-backed Vulture is a typical vulture, with only down feathers on the head and neck, very broad wings and short tail feathers.

Time activity budget of Oriental White-backed Vulture (Gyps bengalensis) in Punjab, Pakistan.

Some critically endangered spieces like White-backed Vulture, and Long Billed Vulture are present in the sanctuary.

BirdLife International (2007b): White-backed Vulture - BirdLife Species Factsheet.

The hills are home to the endangered Yellow-throated Bulbuls and were once home to Long-billed Vultures and White-backed Vultures.

The two prominent bare skin patches at the base of the neck, also found in the White-backed Vulture, are thought to be temperature sensors and used for detecting the presence of thermals.

At one time it was believed to be closer to the White-backed Vulture of Africa and was known as the Oriental White-backed Vulture.

Immature brown, with white band along leading edge of wing and mottling on underwing more diffuse, confusable with immature African White-backed Vulture G africanus, not yet recorded in the region.

A comparative study of the ecology and distribution of the Indian White-backed Vulture (Gyps bengalensis) and the Long-billed Vulture (G. indicus) in the Indian region.

The argasid tick Argas theilerae (Hoogstraal and Kaiser, 1970), "Theiler's African white-backed vulture argasid," was named to honor Dr Theiler for her many contributions to tick research.

The vultures that occur in South Africa are Old World vultures, locally represented by the Lappet-faced Vulture, the White-backed Vulture, the Cape Vulture and the highly unusual Palm-nut Vulture.

When he neared the top of the tree, a white-backed vulture launched herself from her shaggy nest of dried branches and circled anxiously overhead while Sean settled into the fork of a branch only a few feet from the nest.

White-backed vulture (Gyps africanus)

The White-backed Vulture (Gyps africanus) is an Old World vulture in the family Accipitridae, which also includes eagles, kites, buzzards and hawks.