Lappet-faced Vulture (Torgos tracheliotus)

Query: vulture

Result: 215^th of 760

Subject:	Lappet-faced Vulture (Torgos tracheliotus)
Poster:	Phoby (phoby@hanafos.com)

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Lappet-faced Vulture (Torgos tracheliotus)

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Metadata
Title: Nubian Vulture
Alternative Title: (none)
Creator: Stolz, Gary M.
Source: WO-5685-031
Publisher: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Contributor: DIVISION OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Language: EN - ENGLISH
Rights: (public domain)
Audience: (general)
Subject: bird, tanzania
Date Issued: December 05 2001

The lappet-faced vulture or Nubian vulture (Torgos tracheliotos syn. Torgos tracheliotus) is an Old World vulture belonging to the bird order Accipitriformes. Torgos tracheliotos is patchily distributed through much of Africa, though it is absent from much of the central and western parts of the continent and declining elsewhere in its range.

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