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 5 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 6 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 1 year ago 24 sec 3.8 -
An adult soaring, viewed from below Locality Matusadona National Park, Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe (Monotypic species)
Greg Baker 8 September 1999 14 weeks ago 17 sec 3.8
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Perching on a dead tree
Locality Kafue National Park, Zambia
Marco Valentini 5 September 2011 33 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 46 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 -
An adult in flight.
Locality Sululta Plains, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Ken Havard 29 October 2011 3 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 2.8
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