Cinereous vulture
| Cinereous vulture | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Genus: | Aegypius |
| Species: | A. monachus
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| Binomial name | |
| Aegypius monachus (Linnaeus, 1766)
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| Range of A. monachus Breeding Resident Passage Non-breeding Extinct Extant & Reintroduced (resident)
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| Synonyms | |
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Vultur monachus Linnaeus, 1766 | |
The cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) is also known as the 'black vulture', 'monk vulture', or 'Eurasian black vulture'. It is a member of the family Accipitridae. It is one of the two largest old world vultures.
This bird is an Old World vulture, and is only distantly related to the New World vultures, which are in a separate family, Cathartidae, of the same order. It is therefore not directly related to the much smaller American black vulture despite the similar name and coloration.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Aegypius monachus Linnaeus 1766 (cinereous vulture)". Fossilworks.org. Archived from the original on 2022-08-09. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
- ↑ BirdLife International (2021). "Aegypius monachus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T22695231A154915043. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T22695231A154915043.en. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
