Red-headed Vulture
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(New page: image: RHVulture.jpg '''Common Name:''' Red-headed Vulture '''Scientific Name:''' Sarcogyps calvus '''Size:''' 34 inches (85 cm); Wingspan 79 inches (200 cm) '''Habitat:''' Asia; ...) |
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| - | '''Common Name:''' Red-headed Vulture | + | '''Common Name:''' Red-headed Vulture<br> |
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'''Scientific Name:''' Sarcogyps calvus | '''Scientific Name:''' Sarcogyps calvus | ||
'''Habitat:''' Asia; historically abundant with range over south-central and south-eastern Asia extending from Pakistan to Singapore. Today the range of the Red-headed Vulture is localized primarily to Nepal and northern India where it is found in open country and in cultivated and semi-desert areas. | '''Habitat:''' Asia; historically abundant with range over south-central and south-eastern Asia extending from Pakistan to Singapore. Today the range of the Red-headed Vulture is localized primarily to Nepal and northern India where it is found in open country and in cultivated and semi-desert areas. | ||
| - | '''Status:''' Critically Endangered. Historically, this species has been slowly declining. In 1994 it was uplisted to Near Threatened from Least Concern by the IUCN. The widespread use of the NSAID Diclofenac in Indian veterinary medicine has caused its population to collapse in recent years. This compound is now known to be extremely poisonous to vultures. The population of this species has essentially halved every other year since the late 1990s, and what once was a plentiful species numbering in the hundreds of thousands has come dangerously close to extinction in a mere decade-and-a-half or so. Consequently it is uplisted to Critically Endangered in the 2007 IUCN Red List. | + | '''Status:''' Critically Endangered. '''Global Population:''' 2,500-9,999 mature individuals. Historically, this species has been slowly declining. In 1994 it was uplisted to Near Threatened from Least Concern by the IUCN. The widespread use of the NSAID Diclofenac in Indian veterinary medicine has caused its population to collapse in recent years. This compound is now known to be extremely poisonous to vultures. The population of this species has essentially halved every other year since the late 1990s, and what once was a plentiful species numbering in the hundreds of thousands has come dangerously close to extinction in a mere decade-and-a-half or so. Consequently it is uplisted to Critically Endangered in the 2007 IUCN Red List. |
'''Diet:''' Carrion, including small dead animals neglected by other vultures. | '''Diet:''' Carrion, including small dead animals neglected by other vultures. | ||
'''Cool Facts:''' It is also known as the Asian King Vulture, Indian Black Vulture or Pondicherry Vulture. | '''Cool Facts:''' It is also known as the Asian King Vulture, Indian Black Vulture or Pondicherry Vulture. | ||
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