red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus)

Query: sarcogyps calvus

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Subject:	red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus)
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Otogyps calvus - 1782-1825 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ18100057.jpg

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red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus)

Otogyps calvus
Date 1782-1825
Source/Photographer Encyclopédie méthodique, pl. 196
Old Latin name Otogyps calvus
New Latin name Sarcogyps calvus
Common name Nederlands: Indische oorgier
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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.

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