Hawks and Eagles (Accipitridae)
White-headed Vulture (Trigonoceps occipitalis) - HBW 2, p. 129
French: Vautour à tête blanche
German: Wollkopfgeier
Spanish: Buitre Cabeciblanco
Taxonomy: Vultur occipitalis Burchell, 1824, Matlowing River, Botswana.
Usually considered sufficiently distinctive to merit monotypic genus, but sometimes placed in genus Aegypius with A. monachus, T. tracheliotos and S. calvus. Monotypic.
Distribution: Senegal E to Ethiopia (including Dahlak Archipelago) and Somalia, then S to Namibia and N South Africa.
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An immature feeding on carrion near Whitebacked Vultures Locality Mkuze Game Reserve, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa (Monotypic species)
Francesc Capdevila i Torr... 8 October 2002 8 years ago 21 sec 4.5 -
A juvenile in a dead tree, preening Locality Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 29 August 2006 4 years ago 28 sec 4.3 -
An immature feeding on carrion amongst Whitebacked Vultures Locality Mkuze Game Reserve, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa (Monotypic species)
Francesc Capdevila i Torr... 8 October 2002 8 years ago 27 sec 4.3 -
An adult waiting near carrion for its turn Locality Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya (Monotypic species)
Brooke Clibbon 17 December 2002 5 years ago 11 sec 4 -
A close-up of an individual resting on the sand, sunbathing. Locality Parc Paradisio, Cambron-Casteau, Brugelette, Hainaut Province, Belgium (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 4 June 2010 48 weeks ago 24 sec 3.8 -
A bird walking on the ground and a close-up of its head. Locality Parc Paradisio, Cambron-Casteau, Brugelette, Hainaut Province, Belgium (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 4 June 2010 48 weeks ago 30 sec 3.6
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Perching on a dead tree
Locality Kafue National Park, Zambia
Marco Valentini 5 September 2011 18 weeks ago 4.3 -
Bird on a branch
Locality South Luangwa National Park, Zambia
Roland Bischoff 13 September 1998 1 year ago 4.2 -
A perched bird.
Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa (Monotypic species)
Fran Trabalon 29 October 2008 31 weeks ago 3.7 -
Perched in tree
Locality Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Serengeti, Tanzania
John Watson San Antonio TX 3 March 2010 1 year ago 3.3 -
A bird on the ground
Locality Tierpark Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Susanne Rintelen 15 June 2009 2 years ago 3 -
perching
Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa
rolandalder 27 January 2009 2 years ago 2.4
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