Vulture

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vultures are vultures. Both types of vultures are New World vultures, including California and Andes condors, and Old World vultures, including birds that are seen scavenging dead carcasses on the African plains. Some of the Old World's old vultures (including the bearded vultures) do not have close relationships with others, which is why the vultures must be divided into three taxa rather than two. New World's vultures are found in North and South America; Old World wrecks are found in Europe, Africa and Asia, which means that between the two groups, vultures are found on every continent except Australia and Antarctica.

Certain characteristics of many vultures are bald heads, which have no normal feathers. Although historically believed to help maintain head hygiene while breastfeeding, bare skin can play an important role in thermoregulation. Vultures have been observed to bend their bodies and tuck their heads in the cold air, and open their wings and stretch their necks in the heat. Vultures also use urine as a way to keep themselves calm by passing on themselves.

A group of vultures is called a kettle, committee or wake up. The term kettle refers to the vultures in flight, while the committee refers to a vulture which is based on the ground or on a tree. Build is reserved for a group of vultures who are eating. The word Geier (taken from German) has no precise meaning in ornithology; sometimes used to refer to vultures in English, as in some poems.

Video Vulture

Old World vultures

Old World wrecks found in Africa, Asia, and Europe include the family of Accipitridae, which also includes eagles, kites, eagles, and eagles. Old World wrecks find carcasses exclusively by sight.

16 species in 9 genera are:

Carcass, Aegypius monachus
Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus
White beast, bengalensis gips
RÃƒÆ'Ã‚Â¼ppell boy, Gyps rueppelli
Indian vulture, Gyps indicus
Filled pines, Gyps tenuirostris
Himalaya herring, Gips himalayensis
white eater, Gyps africanus
Cape predator, Gyps coprotheres
Hooded hood, Necrosyrtes monachus
Red-headed, Sarcogyps calvus
Shabby face-eating bird, Torgos tracheliotos
White-headed ring, Trigonoceps occipitalis
bearded boy (Lammergeier), Gypaetus barbatus
Egyptian herring, Neophron percnopterus
Palm oil, Gypohierax angolensis

Maps Vulture

Newcomb bird

New World wreck and condor found in warm and temperate regions of America are not closely related to the same Accipitridae, but belong to the Cathartidae family, once considered to be associated with storks. However, recent DNA evidence suggests that they should be included between Accipitriformes, along with other birds of prey. However, they are still not closely related to other vultures. Some species have good sense of smell, are unusual for birds of prey, and are able to smell dead animals from a height, up to a mile away.

The seven species are:

Black black Coragyps atratus in South America and north to the US
Turkey adore Cathartes across America to southern Canada

Small yellow-headed Cathartes burrovianus in South America and north to Mexico

Larger yellow-headed cats Cathartes bully in the tropical South America's Amazon Valley

California condor Gymnogyps californianus in California, previously widespread in the western mountains of North America

Andes condor Vultur gryphus in the Andes

The king of the dead carnage Sarcoramphus papa from southern Mexico to northern Argentina

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Feeding

Hering rarely attacks healthy animals, but can kill those who are injured or sick. When the carcass has a too thick skin to open the beak, it is waiting for a larger scavenger to eat first. A large number has been seen on the battlefield. They gird themselves when the victims are overflowing, until their plants swell, and sit, drowsiness or half torpid, to digest their food. These birds do not bring food to their children in their claws but remove them from their plants. The bearded herd that lives on the mountain is the only vertebrate that specializes in eating bones, and bringing bones to the nest for the young, and eating some survivors.

Vultures have great value as scavengers, especially in hot areas. Vulture abdominal acids are highly corrosive (pH = 1.0), allowing them to safely digest infected carcasses with botulinum toxins, cholera cholera bacteria, and anthrax bacteria that would be deadly to other scavengers and remove these bacteria from the environment. New World deer often vomit when threatened or approachable. Contrary to some accounts, they are not "vomiting projectiles" on their assailants as deliberate defenses, but it eases the burden on their stomachs to make take off easier, and vomit waste can distract the predator, allowing the birds to escape.

New World Vultures also urinate straight down their feet; uric acid kills bacteria that accumulate from walking through the carcass, and also acts as an evaporative cooling.

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Status

Vultures in South Asia, especially in India and Nepal, have declined dramatically since the early 1990s. It has been found that this decrease is caused by residues of the Danish animal drug Diklofenak. The Government of India has been very late in knowing this fact and has banned drugs for animals. However, it may take several decades for vultures to return to their initial population levels, if they have done so: without vultures to take clean corpses, rabies-carrying dogs have doubled, fed on carcasses, and ancient practices such as the sky burial of Parsees is about to end, permanently reducing the bodies supply. The same problem is also seen in Nepal where the government has taken a few steps to conserve the remaining vultures. Similarly, in Central Africa there are also efforts to preserve the remaining vultures and restore their population. This is largely due to the wildlife trade, "estimated at 1 billion kg of wild animal meat is traded" and the vultures take a large percentage of these wild animals because of their demand in the fetish market. The falling population of vultures on the African continent is also said to be the result of intentional or unintentional intoxication, with one study finding it to account for 61% of recorded vultures deaths.

A recent study in 2016, reported that "of the 22 species of vultures, nine endangered species, three are threatened with extinction, four are near threatened, and the six most neglected".