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    (c) Ian White, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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    (c) Martin Grimm, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Lip Kee, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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    (c) Eden Fontes, all rights reserved

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    (c) Scott Ranger, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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White-backed Vulture

Gyps africanus

IUCN Red List status: Critically endangered

IUCN Red List status

Worldwide
9,395 observations
Group
Birds

iNaturalist hides the exact location of threatened species, so a sighting can sit several kilometres from the point shown on its record.

iNaturalist Wikipedia

About

The white-backed vulture (Gyps africanus) is an Old World vulture in the family Accipitridae, which also includes eagles, kites, buzzards and hawks. It is closely related to the European griffon vulture, G. fulvus. Sometimes it is called African white-backed vulture to distinguish it from the Oriental white-backed vulture — nowadays usually called white-rumped vulture — to which it was formerly believed to be closely related.

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