Adult © Santiago Caballero Carrera eBird S71624376 Macaulay Library ML 250273201
Adult © Knut Hansen
Immature © Santiago Caballero Carrera
Adult © Oscar Johnson
Adult © Daniel Jauvin
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Immature © Santiago Caballero Carrera
Adult © Oscar Johnson
© Daniel Jauvin
© Daniel Jauvin
(with Cinereous Vulture, Egyptian Vulture, and White-rumped Vulture) © Garima Bhatia
© Kaajal Dasgupta

Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus

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Identification

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Massive tricolored vulture with whitish head and neck, pale brown body, and contrasting dark flight feathers. Juveniles similar but with a pale brown rather than white neck ruff. Nests in colonies on cliff ledges; often seen in loose flocks soaring over valleys and mountainsides but always in search of updrafts and thermals. Still the commonest vulture over much of its breeding range. Some populations are resident while others are highly migratory.

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