Hawks and Eagles (Accipitridae)
Indian White-backed Vulture (Gyps bengalensis) - HBW 2, p. 126
French: Vautour chaugoun
German: Bengalengeier
Spanish: Buitre Dorsiblanco Bengalí
Other common names: (Oriental) White-backed/White-rumped Vulture
Taxonomy: Vultur bengalensis Gmelin, 1788, Bengal.
Forms superspecies with G. africanus, with which sometimes considered conspecific; these two sometimes separated off in genus Pseudogyps. Monotypic.
Distribution: SE Iran, Afghanistan (perhaps irregularly) and Pakistan through Nepal and India to SC China (Yunnan), Indochina and N Malay Peninsula.
- Critically Endangered Enlarge map
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Several birds showing agression around a recently dead cow. Locality Veal Krous, Dongphlet, Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 10 March 2011 2 years ago 48 sec 4.7 -
More than 60 birds feasting on a dead cow, together with some Slender-billed and Red-headed Vultures Locality Cambodia (Monotypic species)
Ron Hoff 31 January 2007 5 years ago 32 sec 4.5 -
An adult bird (dark neck) feeding on a dead cow. Locality Veal Krous, Dongphlet, Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 10 March 2011 1 year ago 28 sec 4.5 -
An individual nesting. Locality Desert National Park, Rajasthan, India (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 22 February 2011 1 year ago 20 sec 4 -
A bird landing on a tree, looking around and shaking the plumage. Locality Desert National Park, Rajasthan, India (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 22 February 2011 1 year ago 22 sec 4 -
Adults (dark neck) and juveniles (green and golden neck) feeding on a carcass, with Red-headed and Slender-billed Vultures. Locality Veal Krous, Dongphlet, Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 10 March 2011 1 year ago 30 sec 4
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Ahemadabad
Locality Gujarat, India
Subramanya_CK 13 January 2010 3 years ago 4.5 -
A close up of an adult bird
Locality Anaikutty, The Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu, India (Monotypic species)
vasanthan.p.j 20 April 2010 3 years ago 4.4 -
Fighting off one of the Crows that was mobbing the vultures
Locality Ahmedabad District, Gujarat, India
Yograj and manjeet jadeja 2 years ago 4.3 -
A bird in side profile
Locality Masinagudi, The Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu, India
vasanthan.p.j 16 January 2012 1 year ago 4.2 -
Critically endangered
Locality Naliya Grasslands, Kutch District, Gujarat, India
jugal Tiwari 12 September 2009 2 years ago 4 -
A Juvenile bird
Locality Anaikutty, The Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu, India (Monotypic species)
vasanthan.p.j 20 April 2010 3 years ago 4
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Mating call Locality Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India
RAM GOPAL SONI 1 January 1983 3 years ago 4 -
Female calling during copulation on nest in a tall tree Locality Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India
RAM GOPAL SONI 1 December 1983 3 years ago 2
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