Hawks and Eagles (Accipitridae)
Lappet-faced Vulture (Torgos tracheliotus) - HBW 2, p. 129
French: Vautour oricou
German: Ohrengeier
Spanish: Buitre Orejudo
Other common names: African Black/King Vulture, Nubian Vulture
Taxonomy: Vultur tracheliotus J. R. Forster, 1791, Great Namaqualand, South Africa.
Usually considered sufficiently distinctive to merit monotypic genus, but sometimes placed in Aegypius along with A. monachus, T. occipitalis and S. calvus, and in superspecies with A. monachus. Validity of races questionable, as variation may be largely individual and clinal. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- tracheliotus (J. R. Forster, 1791) - extreme SW Morocco; S Mauritania E to Ethiopia and Kenya, S to South Africa.
- nubicus (H. Smith, 1829) - Egypt and N Sudan.
- negevensis Bruun et al., 1981 - S Israel and Arabian Peninsula.
- Vulnerable Enlarge map
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A pair standing and preening Locality Matusadona National Park, Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe (ssp tracheliotus)
Greg Baker 8 September 1999 1 year ago 20 sec 3.5 -
An adult in fight and then landing on top of a tree before preening Locality Matusadona National Park, Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe (ssp tracheliotus)
Greg Baker 8 September 1999 1 year ago 51 sec 3.5 -
A bird in flight. Locality Imi, Ethiopia (ssp tracheliotus)
Josep del Hoyo 5 December 2005 7 years ago 39 sec 3.5 -
An individual charging strongly against another one in a mixed-species concentration of vultures Locality Amboseli National Park, Kenya (ssp tracheliotus)
Josep del Hoyo 18 August 2000 6 years ago 29 sec 3.4 -
A bird in flight. Locality Afar Plains, Afar Region, Ethiopia (ssp tracheliotus)
Josep del Hoyo 27 November 2005 7 years ago 28 sec 3.1 -
A bird feeding on carrion, with other vultures Locality Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya (ssp tracheliotus)
David Fisher 24 January 2006 6 years ago 58 sec 2.5
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An adult bird on a ground.
Locality Birdworld, Farnham, Surrey, England, Great Britain
Tomasz Doroń 5 June 2010 22 weeks ago 3.6 -
A bird at its nest, at the top of a tree
Locality Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya (ssp tracheliotus)
Liam Hughes 29 May 2011 51 weeks ago 3.3 -
Bird in a National Park
Locality Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya
Juan Gonzalez Valdivieso 1 September 2009 2 years ago 3.2 -
An adult in soaring flight.
Locality Wondo Genet, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (ssp tracheliotus)
David Beadle 19 January 2009 16 weeks ago 3 -
two lappet-faced vultures at a buffalo carcass
Locality Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya
chrisjohnson 1 June 1988 2 years ago 3 -
Close to a carrion near a Gyps africanus
Locality Serengeti National Park, Serengeti, Tanzania (ssp tracheliotus)
JOSÉ ENRIQUE JIMÉNEZ 22 August 2009 2 years ago 3
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