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Griffon Vultures
Gyps
Gyps is a genus of Old World vultures that was proposed by Marie Jules César Savigny in 1809. Its members are sometimes known as griffon vultures. Gyps vultures have a slim head, a long slender neck with downy feathers, and a ruff around the neck formed by long buoyant feathers. The crown of their big beaks is a little compressed, and their big dark nostrils are set transverse to the beak. They have six or seven wing feathers, of which the first is the shortest and the fourth the longest.
12 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 8 known species
Eurasian Griffon
speciesGyps fulvus
White-backed Vulture
speciesGyps africanus
Himalayan Griffon
speciesGyps himalayensis
Rüppell's Griffon
speciesGyps rueppelli
Cape Griffon
speciesGyps coprotheres
White-rumped Vulture
speciesGyps bengalensis
Indian Vulture
speciesGyps indicus
Slender-billed Vulture
speciesGyps tenuirostris
Gyps africanus × coprotheres
hybridGyps africanus × coprotheres
Gyps fulvus × rueppelli
hybridGyps fulvus × rueppelli
Gyps africanus × rueppelli
hybridGyps africanus × rueppelli
Gyps coprotheres × rueppelli
hybridGyps coprotheres × rueppelli
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 5362.