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Slender-billed Vulture

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Alternate name
Gyps tenuirostris Scientific name
Accipitriformes Order
Acciptridae Family
  Length
Tropical dry forest, savanna & grassland, up to 2,000m. Found in:- Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, [India:- Arid northwest, Eastern Himalayas, Gangetic plain Uttar Pradesh & Western Himalayas.,] Laos, Malaysia, Pakistan, Thailand, Habitat
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Carrion Food  
The rarest of the three species whose populations have been decimated by the veterinary drug diclofenac.Link to bird life International for more info. Habits
NA - TSN: 175489 - Sub-species World Number
Critically Endangered Status

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  Czech: sup tenkozobý
Danish: Langnćbbet Grib
German: Schmalschnabelgeier
English: Himalayan Long-billed Vulture, Indian Long-billed Vulture, Long-billed Vulture, Slender-billed Vulture
Finnish: gangesinkorppikotka
French: Vautour ŕ bec élancé, Vautour ŕ long bec
Latin: Gyps indicus nudiceps, Gyps indicus tenuirostris, Gyps tenuirostris
Norwegian: Teraigribb
Polish: sep dlugodzioby, sęp długodzioby
Russian: Тонкоклювый сип
Slovak: sup tenkozobý
Swedish: Smalnäbbad gam
Thai: อีแร้งสีน้ำตาล

Sub-species None

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