Hooded Vulture
Necrosyrtes monachus
Aves
CRITICALLY ENDANGERED
Stats
- Lifespan
- Up to 30 yrs
- Size
- Small
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Flock
- Biome
- Tropical savanna
- Range
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Speed
- Status
- Critically Endangered
About
The Hooded Vulture is a small Old World vulture native to sub-Saharan Africa, recognised by its bare pink facial skin and downy white hood of feathers behind its head. It is critically endangered, with populations collapsing due to poisoning, persecution, and demand for its body parts in traditional medicine.
Life cycle
- 1.eggOne or two eggs are incubated on a high stick nest or cliff ledge, guarded closely by the pair.
- 2.hatchlingA downy hatchling is fed torn meat by its parents and grows quickly in a high nest.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to soar and to make its first kills.
- 4.adultFully grown, hunting on its own with adult plumage.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Family
- Accipitridae
- Genus
- Necrosyrtes
- Species
- Necrosyrtes monachus