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English Bearded Vulture
Scientific (Gypaetus barbatus)
Order ACCIPITRIFORMES
Family (Latin) Accipitridae
Family (English) Kites, Hawks, Eagles
Other name(s)
Breeding Regions AF, PAL
Breeding Range Subregions n, e, s AF; c, sw Asia
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Andorra,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Belarus,Bhutan,Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,China,Croatia,Cyprus,Democratic Republic of Congo,Djibouti,Egypt,Eritrea,Ethiopia,France, Georgia,Greece,India - mainland,Iran,Iraq,Italy,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon,Lesotho,Macedonia,Mauritania,Mongolia,Montenegro,Mozambique,Namibia,Nepal,North Korea, Pakistan,Palestine,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Russia,Saudi Arabia,Serbia,Somalia,South Africa, South Sudan,Spain,Sudan,Switzerland,Syria,Tajikistan,Tanzania,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan, Uganda,Ukraine,Uzbekistan,Yemen,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
barbatus s Europe and nw Africa to ne China through the Himalayas to Nepal and w Pakistan
meridionalis sw Arabia and ne, e, s Africa
IUCN Status Code NT (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
German Bartgeier
French Gypaète barbu
Chinese 胡兀鹫
Japanese ヒゲワシ
Russian Бородач
Spanish Quebrantahuesos
Portuguese quebra-ossos
Bird Data App text Known to break and eat bones.
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
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)