Stats

Lifespan: 21-37 yrs
Size: Small
Diet: Carnivore
Activity: Diurnal
Social: Pair
Biome: Temperate grassland
Range: Africa, Europe and Asia
Movement: Flight
Breeding: Egg-laying
Defense: Flight
Status: Endangered

About

The Egyptian Vulture is a small Old World vulture with striking white plumage, a bare yellow face, and a wedge-shaped tail. It is one of the few birds known to use tools, hurling stones to crack open thick-shelled ostrich eggs.

Life cycle

1.
egg
One or two eggs are incubated on a high stick nest or cliff ledge, guarded closely by the pair.
2.
hatchling
A downy hatchling is fed torn meat by its parents and grows quickly in a high nest.
3.
juvenile
A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to soar and to make its first kills.
4.
adult
Fully grown, hunting on its own with adult plumage.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Neophron
Species: Neophron percnopterus