Neophron percnopterus


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Synonyms for Neophron percnopterus

small mostly white vulture of Africa and southern Eurasia

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Acquisition of food by fledging Egyptian vultures, Neophron percnopterus, by nest-swiching and acceptance by foster parents.
Otro detalle a considerar es el gran valor de las zonas serranas aprovechados por diversas especies para la cria con gran valor como Aegypius monachus, Aquila chysaetos y Neophron percnopterus.
benghalensis [the Blue Jay or Indian Roller], Neophron percnopterus [the Egyptian Vulture], Necrostyctes [sic] monachus ????, Oenanthe deserti atrogularis [the Desert Wheatear], Charadrius alexandrinus [the Kentish Plover] and Burhinus oedicnemus astutus [the Persian Stone-Curlew].
Meanwhile, the first couples of Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) are back in the Eastern Rhodopes and began to set up their nests.
2009: Poison-related mortality effects in the endangered Egyptian vulture Neophron percnopterus population in Spain.--European Journal of Wildlife Research 55: 415-423.
In the case of the endangered Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus), it has been reported that vulture restaurants help the maintenance of breeding pairs and even that the breeding success of neighbor pairs to these food sources was higher in comparison to other pairs in the Ebro valley (Grande et al.
The nasal organs of the Black and Turkey Vultures; a comparative study of the cathartid species Coragyps atratus atratus and Cathartes aura septentrionalis (with notes on Cathartes aura falklandica, Pseudogyps bengalensis, and Neophron percnopterus).
Ten species are considered to be threatened viz., Endangered (EN): Falco cherrug and Neophron percnopterus, Near Threatened (NT): Aegypius monachus, Aythya nyroca, Falco vespertinus, Limosa limosa and Numenius arquata, and Vulnerable (VU): Aquila clanga, Aquila heliaca and Otis tarda; and the balance 229 species as Least Concern (LC) (IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2017-2).
It was successful in 50 bird species; in 16 of those (Alopochen aegyptiacus, Ara severus, Aratinga acuticaudata, Bucorvus leadbeateri, Cereopsis novaehollandiae, Columba arquatrix, Corvus corax, Corvus frugilegus, Cyanoliseus patagonus, Guttera plumifera, Lamprotornis superbus, Milvus milvus, Neophron percnopterus, Ocyphaps lophotes, Podiceps cristatus, and Poicephalus senegalus), it was carried out for the first time by using molecular markers and polymerase chain reaction.