Egyptian vulture

Neophron percnopterus
Hawks and eagles (Accipitridae)

Characteristic white with black wing edge.
Egyptian vultureon RikenMon's Nature.Guide

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Small white vulture, with long neck feathers and a white wedge-shaped tail. The flight feathers are black and show a black rear wing from below. Furthermore, the vulture is off-white with a bare yellow face, yellow beak and yellow or pink legs. The sexes are equal, the young birds are brown, directly with a yellow face and in 4 years they become white with black. 

Floats high in the air on thermals, searching for prey. 

⇔ l. 55-70 cm 

syn. White scavenger vulture, Pharaoh's chicken 

Lives in southern and central Spain, northern Africa and central Asia. 

LA: 
≈ The GYPAETUS BARBATUS (Bearded vulture) is much larger and darker coloured, but also has the same shape of the tail. 
≈ The GYPS FULVUS (Griffon vulture) sometimes looks very light, but is much larger and not white and the tail is fan-shaped.

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