Red-headed Vulture

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Red-headed Vulture	Home Bird Orders
	Asian King Vulture, Indian Black Vulture or Pondicherry Vulture	Alternate name
	Sarcogyps calvus	Scientific name
	Accipitriformes	Order
	Acciptridae	Family
	85 cm (wingspan 1.99–2.6 m)	Length
	Tropical dry forest, grassland & shrubland. Bhutan, Cambodia, [India:- Arid northwest India, Central highlands, Eastern Himalayas, Gangetic plain, Northeast India, Southeast India, Southwest India, Uttar Pradesh, Western Himalayas,] Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand. See Map	Habitat
		Altitude
		Range
		Clutch
	Carrion	Food
		Habits
	3366 - TSN: 175492	World Number
	Critically Endangered	Status

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Map by Jobel

Bulgarian: Индийски ушат лешояд
Czech: Sup holohlavý
Danish: Rødhovedet Grib
German: Kahlkopfgeier
English: Asian King Vulture, Indian Black Vulture, King Vulture, Pondicherry Vulture, Red-headed Vulture
Spanish: Buitre Cabecirrojo, Buitre de Cabeza Roja
Estonian: kiilas-raisakotkas
Finnish: Kalmokorppikotka
French: Vautour chauve, Vautour de Pendickéry, Vautour de Pondichéry, Vautour royal
Hebrew: עזניה אדומת ראש
Italian: Avvoltoio calvo, Avvoltoio testarossa
Japanese: mimihagewashi
Japanese: ミミハゲワシ
Latin: Aegypius calvus, Aegypus calvus, Sarcogyps calvus
Dutch: Indische Oorgier
Norwegian: Rødhodegribb
Polish: sep lysy, sęp łysy
Russian: Индийский ушастый гриф
Slovak: sup cervenohlavý, sup červenohlavý, sup holohlavý
Swedish: Rödhuvad gam
Thai: พญาแร้ง
Vietnamese: Chim ó tai
Chinese: 黑兀鹫

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