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English Egyptian Vulture
Scientific (Neophron percnopterus)
Order ACCIPITRIFORMES
Family (Latin) Accipitridae
Family (English) Kites, Hawks, Eagles
Other name(s)
Breeding Regions AF, PAL, OR
Breeding Range Subregions w AF to India, s Spain to c Asia
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Angola,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bhutan,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Bulgaria, Burkina Faso,Cameroon,Cape Verde,Central African Republic,Chad,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark, Djibouti,Egypt,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland,France,Gambia,Georgia, Germany,Ghana,Gibraltar,Greece,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Hungary,India - mainland,Iran,Iraq, Israel,Italy,Ivory Coast,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan,Lebanon,Libya, Macedonia,Mali,Malta,Mauritania,Moldova,Mongolia,Montenegro,Morocco,Mozambique,Myanmar, Nepal,Niger,Nigeria,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Palestine,Poland,Portugal,Qatar, Romania,Russia,Rwanda,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Slovenia,Somalia,South Sudan,Spain, Sri Lanka,Sudan,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Tajikistan,Tanzania,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan, Uganda,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,Uzbekistan,Western Sahara,Yemen,Zambia,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
ginginianus Nepal to s India
majorensis e Canary Is.; formerly much more widespread in group (c Macaronesia, nw of w Africa)
percnopterus s Europe, Middle East and Africa
IUCN Status Code EN (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
German Schmutzgeier
French Percnoptère d’Égypte
Chinese 白兀鹫
Japanese エジプトハゲワシ
Russian Стервятник
Spanish Alimoche común
Portuguese abutre-do-egipto
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)