Encyclopedia of Life · EOL (see source)
Species
Critically EndangeredVulnerable
via IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Trigonoceps
- Mass
- 4.7
- Image
- Day 12 White-headed Vulture (Trigonoceps occipitalis) (53439819016).jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Critically Endangered
- taxon name
- Trigonoceps occipitalis
- Commons category
- Trigonoceps occipitalis
- Commons gallery
- Trigonoceps occipitalis
- wingspan
- 2.286
- litter size
- 1
- egg incubation period
- 53
- taxon common name
- crvenokljuni sup
- short name
- T. occipitalis
- taxon range
- Burkina Faso
- external data available at URL
- www.gbif.org/dataset/2c04922c-82dd-4718-ab22-c9772408de9c
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Encyclopedic overview
The white-headed vulture (Trigonoceps occipitalis) is an Old World vulture endemic to Africa. Populations have been declining steeply in recent years due to habitat degradation and poisoning of vultures at carcasses. An extinct relative was also present in the Indonesian island of Flores during the Late Pleistocene, indicating that the genus was more widespread in the past.
Distribution and habitat
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “White-headed Vulture” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.