Indian Vulture
Gyps indicus
Summary 2
The Indian vulture (Gyps indicus) is an Old World vulture native to India, Pakistan and Nepal. It has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2002, as the population severely declined. Indian vultures died of renal failure caused by diclofenac poisoning. It breeds mainly on hilly crags in central and peninsular India. The birds in the northern part of its range once considered a subspecies are now treated as a separate species,...
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- (c) Shantanu Kuveskar, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indian_vulture_(Gyps_indicus)_Photograph_by_Shantanu_Kuveskar.jpg
- (c) Wikipedia, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyps_indicus
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