Aegypius monachus

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Overview

Near Threatened

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,401 meters (0 to 14,439 feet).[1]

Ecology: It inhabits forested areas in hills and mountains at 300-1,400 m in Spain, but higher in Asia, where it also occupies scrub and arid and semi-arid alpine steppe and grasslands up to 4,500m5. It forages over many kinds of open terrain, including forest , bare mountains, steppe and open grasslands. Nests are built in trees or on rocks (the latter extremely rarely in Europe but more frequently in parts of Asia), often aggregated in very loose colonies or nuclei. Its diet consists mainly of carrion from medium-sized or large mammal carcasses, although snakes and insects have been recorded as food items. Live prey is rarely taken. In Mongolia, at least, the species is reliant on livestock numbers for successful nesting15.

[2].

List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.8     Shrubland - Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.4     Grassland - Temperate   
  
•     4.5     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Aegypius monachus (Linnaeus, 1766)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Aegypius

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. calvus (Red-Headed Vulture) · A. monachus (Eurasian Black Vulture) · A. occipitalis (White-Headed Vulture) · A. tracheliotus (Lappet-Faced Vulture)

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Further Reading

• 1994 IUCN red list of threatened animals Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 1993 url p. 39.
• A guide to the birds of Nepal Christopher Helm (Publishers) Ltd. url p. 111.
• An environmental profile of the Black Sea Coast WCMC url p. 101, p. 31, p. 34, p. 38, p. 62.
• Analysis and Synthesis of National Reports. Prepared by UNEP and CMS Secretariat CMS url p. 22.
• Annotated CITES Appendices and Reservations CITES url p. 65.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url p. 324, p. 578, p. 86, p. 94, p. 97.
• Biosphere Reserves, Compilation 4, October 1986: programme on man and the biosphere (MAB) IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 237, p. 325, p. 399.
• Birds from Nepal [by] Austin L. Rand [and] Robert L. Fleming. 41 1957 [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1957. url p. 55.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 394.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 109 1953 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 380, p. 84.
• California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 148.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 260, p. 308.
• Checklist of CITES Species CITES, WCMC url p. 110, p. 115, p. 129, p. 237, p. 94.
• Checklist of CITES Species: a reference to the appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES url p. 237, p. 55, p. 82, p. 99.
• Checklist of birds listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 265, p. 274, p. 31.
• Checklists for the CORINE Biotopes Programme and its application in the PHARE countries of Central and East Europe: including comparisons with relevant conventions and agreements on the conservation of European species and habitats EC url p. 99.
• Directory of Wetlands of International Importance. IUCN url p. 512, p. 757.
• IUCN Directory of South Asian Protected Areas IUCN url p. 141, p. 281.
• MAB Biosphere Reserves: Site Descriptions, post compilation 5 (October 1990) UNESCO MAB Programme url , .
• Mammals of the Soviet Union / V.G. Heptner, A.A. Nasimovich, and A.G. Bannikov; scientific editor, Robert S. Hoffmann. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Libraries and National Science Foundation, 1988- url p. 153.
• Nature Reserves of the Himalaya and the Mountains of Central Asia IUCN url p. 461, p. 90.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 5.
• Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and financial report of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents for the year ending June 30. .. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1933-1965. url p. 70, p. 81, p. 94, p. 97.
• Special scientific report--wildlife / U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service, 1949- url p. 17, p. 593.
• The biology of senescence. New York, Rinehart, 1956. url p. 50.
• The natural history of the USSR / Algirdas Knystautas; foreword by Vladimir Flint; [translation, John S. Scott]. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987. url p. 154.
• World Checklist of Threatened Birds Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 257.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2008. Aegypius monachus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 12, 2007:

• Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds
• European Environment Agency, EUNIS
• Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Israel Nature and Parks Authority
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• National Science Museum of Korea, National Science Museum of Korea Bird
• The Danish Biodiversity Information Facility, Western Palearctic migrants in continental Africa

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8490
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-175494
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13816262
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 175494
• IUCN ID: 188992
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1418

Footnotes

1. Mean = 124.840 meters (409.580 feet), Standard Deviation = 407.900 based on 182,384 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. BirdLife International 2008. Aegypius monachus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]

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