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The Indian Vulture, scientifically named *Gyps indicus*, is a species of vulture within the genus *Gyps*. It is also referred to by the common name White-rumped Vulture. This bird belongs to the class Aves and is closely related to the Eurasian Vulture (*G. fulvus*).
The species has a wingspan of 2.286 and a mass of 5.515. Its reproductive cycle involves a litter size of 1 and an egg incubation period of 50. The Indian Vulture is currently listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, a status recorded in 2021.
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Indian Vulture is indexed among the 9,479 entries in Vinony's Critically Endangered Species collection.
Within Vinony's link graph, Indian Vulture is referenced by 112 other articles, and connects out to Critically Endangered, beak and Griffon Vulture.
It sits within the topics Aviculture, Birds described in 1786 and Birds of India.
Its subject is documented across 49 Wikipedia language editions.
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Critically EndangeredWhite-rumped Vulture
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長喙兀鷲（學名：Gyps indicus）是鷹科下的一種兀鷲。與常見的歐亞兀鷲（G. fulvus）有密切的親緣關係。近年因用於動物的止痛藥雙氯芬酸鈉的廣泛流傳，令不少活動於南亞的兀鷲出現腎衰竭，目前牠們均面臨滅絕危機。
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Encyclopedic overview
The Indian vulture or long-billed vulture (Gyps indicus) is a bird of prey native to the Indian subcontinent. It is an Old World vulture belonging to the family of Accipitridae. It is a medium-sized vulture with a small, semi-bald head with little feathers, long beak, and wide dark colored wings. It breeds mainly on small cliffs and hilly crags in central India and south India.
The Indian vulture is a keystone species that has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2002, as the population has severely declined during the Indian vulture crisis. It is estimated that there are 5,000-15,000 mature individuals in the wild. The main cause of the decline was identified as kidney failure caused by the drug diclofenac, which was commonly given to cattle to reduce joint pain. It is thought that diclofenac poisoned vultures that ate the flesh of dead cattle. Diclofenac bans were enacted in India, Pakistan and Nepal in 2006.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Indian Vulture” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.