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A large bird of prey flying in the sky with mountains in the background.

Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus) flying in Catalonian pyrenees.

Egyptian Vulture, Neophron percnopterus, Desert National Park, Pawai, Madhya Pradesh, India

A pair of Egyptian vulture playing at the bank of river.

Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) photographed in the Monfragüe national park

$The Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus), also called the white scavenger vulture or pharaoh's chicken.\n \nThe Egyptian vulture is usually seen singly or in pairs, soaring in thermals along with other scavengers and birds of prey, or perched on the ground or atop a building. On the ground, they walk with a waddling gait. They feed on a range of food, including mammal faeces (including those of humans), insects in dung, carrion, vegetable matter, and sometimes small animals. When it joins other vulture species at a dead animal, it tends to stay on the periphery and waits until the larger species leave.Wild rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) form a significant part of the diet of Spanish vultures.Studies suggest that they feed on ungulate faeces to obtain carotenoid pigments responsible for their bright yellow and orange facial skin. The ability to assimilate carotenoid pigments may serve as a reliable signal of fitness.\n \nEgyptian vultures are mostly silent but make high-pitched mewing or hissing notes at the nest and screeching noises when squabbling at a carcass. Young birds have been heard making a hissing croak in flight.They also hiss or growl when threatened or angry.\n \nEgyptian vultures roost communally on large trees, buildings or on cliffs.Roost sites are usually chosen close to a dump site or other suitable foraging area. In Spain and Morocco,summer roosts are formed mainly by immature birds. The favourite roost trees tended to be large dead pines. The number of adults at the roost increases towards June. It is thought that breeding adults may be able to forage more efficiently by joining the roost and following others to the best feeding areas. Breeding birds that failed to raise young may also join the non-breeding birds at the roost during June.$

Egyptian vulture in natural habitat in Bulgaria

Egyptian vulture in flight with wings spread

Egyptian Vultures near the beach in Oman

White scavenger vulture or pharaoh's chicken (Neophron percnopterus) has white plumage, hackle from neck feathers, and yellow unfeathered face with hooked beak.

Adult Aasgier in vlucht, Egyptian Vulture adult in flight

$Single king vulture run-up.\nSarcoramphus papa is a scavenger bird.$

Egyptian vulture, neophron percnopterus, and griffon vulture, gyps fulvus, sitting in Rhodopes mountains. Two birds of prey on a horizon with green grass and rocks in summer nature.

$Yellow-billed Kite.\nThe yellow-billed kite (Milvus aegyptius) is the Afrotropic counterpart of the black kite (Milvus migrans), of which it is most often considered a subspecies. However, DNA studies suggest that the yellow-billed kite differs significantly from black kites in the Eurasian clade, and should be considered as a separate, allopatric species.$

Griffon vulture in flight with wings outstretched in Duratón, Castile and León, Spain

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Cinereous vulture Aegypius monachus in wild.

$It declined markedly throughout the 19th–20th centuries in much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, mainly due to direct persecution and \$

The Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus), also called the white scavenger vulture or pharaoh's chicken

Two birds flying together. Whether playing or fighting it was a unique sight to observe.

The Egyptian vulture , Neophron percnopterus, also called the white scavenger vulture or pharaoh's chicken, Neophron percnopterus, Status : endangered, Panna National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India

An eagle flying in the blue sky with white clouds

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