Adult © Christoph Moning eBird S16515261 Macaulay Library ML 65677601
Adult © Javi Elorriaga
Immature © Sonja Ross
Adult © Ian Davies
Adult © Christoph Moning
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Adult (with Hooded Vulture) © Javi Elorriaga
(with Lappet-faced Vulture) © Christoph Moning

Rüppell's Griffon Gyps rueppelli

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Identification

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Huge vulture, slightly smaller than Eurasian Griffon. Adults have dark-bodied with pale feather tips on body and shoulders, giving them a scaled appearance; also note pale bill and eye. Juveniles are dark with a characteristic pale bar on the leading edge of the underwings and have a black bill and dark eyes. Nests on cliffs and is generally silent except when squabbling at carcasses. Often encountered foraging over grasslands and soaring along cliffs and ridgelines.

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