red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus)

Query: iconographia zoologica

Result: 365^th of 1524

Subject:	red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus)
Poster:	Wiki Photos (---@---.---)

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Artist Jean-Baptiste Huet (1745–1811)
Description
Otogyps calvus
Date 1700-1880
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Temminck pl. col. 2
Old Latin name Otogyps calvus
New Latin name Sarcogyps calvus
Common name Nederlands: Indische oorgier
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otogyps_calvus_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ18100059.tif

The red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus) is also known as the Asian king vulture, Indian black vulture or Pondicherry vulture. It is mainly found in the Indian subcontinent, with small disjunct populations in some parts of Southeast Asia. It has a prominent naked head: deep-red to orange in the adult, paler red in the juvenile.

iconographia zoologica
365/1524

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