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The Griffon Vulture is a large bird of prey that feeds primarily on carrion—the carcasses of dead animals. These vultures play an important ecological role by cleaning up animal remains in their natural habitats.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- necrophage
- Parent taxon
- Gyps
- Mass
- +8.328
- Image
- Gyps fulvus -Basque Country-8.jpg
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- P105
- species
- P141
- Least Concern
- P9566
- diurnality
- P9714
- Burkina Faso
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The Eurasian griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) is a large Old World vulture in the bird of prey family Accipitridae. It is also known as the Eurasian griffon or griffon vulture, although the latter term is sometimes used for the genus Gyps as a whole.
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Birds described in 1783Birds of North AfricaBirds of prey of EurasiaGypsIUCN Red List least concern speciesNational symbols of AfghanistanNational symbols of AlbaniaNational symbols of Bosnia and HerzegovinaNational symbols of BulgariaNational symbols of IranNational symbols of KosovoNational symbols of Montenegro