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White-backed Vulture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The White-backed Vulture, Gyps africanus, is an Old World vulture in the family Accipitridae, which also includes eagles, kites, buzzards and hawks. The White-backed Vulture is a typical vulture, with a bald head, very broad wings and short tail. Like other vultures it is a scavenger, feeding mostly from carcasses of dead animals which it finds by soaring over savannah and around human habitation. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White-backed_Vulture

Aerial survey of raptors in the lowveld of Swaziland, July 2002 The first population estimates of vultures in Swaziland were made by Parker (1994) who estimated a total of 200 breeding pairs of African White-backed Vulture based on observations of congregations at carcasses. Unlike the African White-backed Vulture, the nests of these two species were spaced well apart and were not situated along drainage lines. Pennycuick, C.J. Breeding of the lappet-faced and white-headed vultures (Torgos tracheliotus Forster and Trigonoceps occipitalis Burchell) on the Serengeti Plains, Tanzania. www.ecs.co.sz /eagles.htm

Vultures: What's killing the cleaners? Vulture populations over the whole country were crashing dramatically; and two species, the white-backed vulture Gyps bengalensis and long-billed vulture Gyps indicus were heading towards extinction. At one of the finest vulture areas (in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh) where, till just a couple of years ago, vulture species were seen in thousands, as few as10-12 long-billeds and white-backeds have been noted in recent months. In KNP, captive vultures are being housed in a specially constructed facility for observation; and the BNHS is establishing an Indian Vulture Study Group. www.deroy.homestead.com /files/Vultures/vultures.htm

African White-backed Vulture, Gyps africanus This may be, in part, because White-backed Vultures are adapted to feeding on soft tissues (muscles, intestines etc) and cannot rip open the large carcasses which form the major part of their diet. It can be confused with Rüppell's Griffon Vulture which is found in the same areas and whose plumage, in older birds, fades to a similar brown colour. Across all of Kenya this is the most abundant of the vultures. www.kenyabirds.org.uk /wb_vulture.htm

30/6/2004 -- PAKISTAN: Vulture population in critical decline They said high vulture populations were an indicators of a healthy eco system and their extinction would lead to a loss of biodiversity. The sources said the catastrophic decline in vulture population was due to a drug called diclofenac used in human and veterinary healthcare for decades. Vultures that feed on dead animals treated with the drug die within a few days of renal failure. forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=33201

VULTURES and CONDORS The situation regarding the Asian White-backed Vulture is now regarded as critical with extinction inevitable unless the reasons responsible for their population decline can be ascertained and corrected. The Asian White-Backed Vulture builds a stick nest in tall trees, sometimes two nests will be found per tree and often a group of trees may contain ten breeding pairs. When the heaviest vultures and condors use flapping flight it requires so much extra energy that they are barely able to stay aloft, in fact it is considered almost impossible for them to do so when they have a crop loaded with food. www.lairweb.org.nz /vulture/asian.html

NWHC: Diclofenac residues as the cause of vulture population decline in Pakistan - Text version Residue analysis in wild vultures from Pakistan and toxicity experiments have shown vultures, unlike mammals, to be extremely sensitive to diclofenac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, commonly used by veterinarians on agricultural animals in Pakistan. Vultures are exposed to diclofenac by scavenging agricultural animals that have been treated with diclofenac before death. Diclofenac residues as the cause of vulture population decline in Pakistan www.nwhc.usgs.gov /research/diclofenac_text.html

&prd=mag& As recent as in the 1980s, white backed vultures were considered the most abundant avian scavengers in the world. The white backed vulture ( Gyps bengalensis) is a medium sized vulture, once common in the sub-continent. We were at the abode of the vulture, or the valley of the vulture, as it is popularly known. www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2005041000150200.htm&date=2005/04/10/&prd=mag&

BANGLAPEDIA: Vulture As carrion feeders, vultures are threatened in most parts of the world by the general decline in number of wandering herds of wild and domestic herbivores and by sanitary practices involving the removal, burying, or burning of dead animals. Of the 18 vulture species distribtuted in the New and the Old World, six occur in Bangladesh, of which four are resident and two are migratory (Table). Among the resident vultures, Red-headed or King Vulture is critically endangered. banglapedia.search.com.bd /HT/V_0067.htm

WORLDTWITCH - India - Report by Robert W. Risebrough on the vulture population crash in India A small colony of white-backed vultures containing eight nests was located in late 1999 immediately adjacent to the village of Bangro in the higher country 66 km southwest of the Park. Contact of the white-backed and long-billed vultures with wintering birds of other species of the genus Gyps could facilitate the spread of a disease in vultures of the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. As of 31 December 1999, no vultures had yet been trapped but capture of several of those still present in the vicinity of Keoladeo appears only to be a matter of spending the sufficient number of hours waiting in the pit traps. www.worldtwitch.com /vultures_india.htm

Sanctuary Asia - Features The Centre plans to breed White-backed and Long-billed Vultures and release them into the wild once the disease affecting them is identified. Mainstream BNHS opinion theorises a catastrophic decline in the numbers of two of India's most common species, the White-backed and Long-billed Vultures. The few diffident and sick vultures that remain are now easily chased away by dogs at carcass dumps, whereas a few years ago, no dog would dare to grab a morsel from a dump surrounded by dozens, sometimes hundreds of these dominating birds. www.sanctuaryasia.com /features/detailfeatures.php?id=248

Preface Vulture surveys in various parts of the country were carried out during the months of April and May when vulture populations are the highest, as most of the nestlings fledge during this period. The major objectives of the study were (1) to determine the present status and distribution of vultures in the country, (2) to determine the major causes of decline in the vulture populations in the country. Looking at some of the towers, and being informed that the vultures would stand shoulder to shoulder round the top of the tower to be used, prior to the funeral, we estimated that there could have been three hundred or more vultures waiting on one of the larger towers. www.riverbanks.org /subsite/aig/vultureworkshop.htm

Mystery Disease Stalking Vultures in Asia Summary A mysterious disease wiping out white-backed vultures in India is now decimating populations in neighboring Pakistan. Vultures used to be as numerous as "pigeons in cities of the United States," says Rick Watson, a raptor ecologist and director of international programs at the Peregrine Fund in Boise, Idaho. In the Changa Manga forest in Pakistan's Punjab province, researchers say that their vulture study may be over—not because they have solved the mystery of what has decimated the population, but because no more vultures remain. news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/05/0520_030520_tvvultures.html

VULTURES and CONDORS The African White-backed Vulture depends upon other smaller vultures to lead it to the site of a kill. If this bird's white rump is not visible it is extremely difficult to separate from the Cape Vulture, a situation made even more difficult by the fact that their territories overlap. These vultures feed primarily upon large game, from hippopotamus that of died of natural causes, to wildebeest which drowned during migration, to elephants, rhinos and any other sizeable source of carrion. www.lairweb.org.nz /vulture/african.html

The Hindu : Other States / Rajasthan News : Gyps vultures on the verge of extinction The latest studies indicate that out of the three species of Gyps vultures--White-backed vulture, the Long-billed vulture and the Slender-billed vulture-- the White-backed are the ones facing the most serious threat to their survival. The situation is so alarming that the experts have suggested captive breeding of White-backed and Long-billed vultures under a worldwide programme besides keeping a close watch on the existing small population of these birds within the country. The Gyps vultures are in danger of extinction. www.hindu.com /2004/06/26/stories/2004062608580500.htm

Asian white-backed vulture - Gyps bengalensis: More Information - ARKive It is a medium-sized vulture (2), with the blunt talons and bare head that characterise this group of carrion -feeding birds (4). In contrast, this vulture remained fairly common on the Indian subcontinent until the late 1990s when populations underwent sudden and catastrophic declines throughout the region, prompting the species to be upgraded to Critically Endangered (5). In fact, the decline is a result of a lethal level of the drug in a small proportion of the ungulate carcasses available to vultures, but as vultures travel long distances to reach carrion, a considerable proportion of the population has been affected (6). www.arkive.org /species/GES/birds/Gyps_bengalensis/more_info.html

Asian vultures appeal - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds The Indian white-backed vulture was so abundant in India in the 1980s that it was among the most common large birds of prey in the world. The white-backed vulture is one of the species of vulture likely to go extinct in the near future Today, along with the long-billed vulture and slender-billed vulture, it is listed as critically threatened, ie within the category of birds most likely to become extinct in the near future. www.rspb.org.uk /international/vultures/index.asp

Vulture Die-Off In India - More H5N1? A total of 38-40 white-backed vultures [WBVs] have been reported dead since 18 May 2005 from the Mahua vulture colony in the Bhavnagar District of Gujarat. The vulture colony is situated very close to these poultry farms, and after their death, these ranikhet-affected poultry were not buried but were thrown in an open area nearby. If it was the virus affecting the chickens, the vultures may have acquired it through consumption of the carcasses (rather than by airborne spread). www.rense.com /general66/vulturedieoffinindia.htm

AsianWhiteBacked One of the smaller vultures in its area, the white-backed is usually dominated by the other carrion-eaters on a carcass. The most common vulture in India, the White-Backed is also the only vulture found in Burma, and Malaya. The white-backed vulture is relatively undiscriminating about what it eats. www.vultures.homestead.com /AsianWhiteBacked.html

Untitled1 Unlike many other species of vultures who will supplement their diet with ripe fruits and vegetables, the White-Backed is a strict meat-eater. The African White-Backed vulture is a gregarious bird, and feeds in large groups. This has significantly lessened the vultures' once-abundant food supply, and is taking its toll on their populations as a result. www.vultures.homestead.com /AfricanWhiteBacked.html

Callaway Gardens Birds of Prey The typical African white-backed vulture has a wingspan of six feet and weighs 30 to 36 pounds. The African white-backed vulture prefers savannahs and open woodlands and likes to nest in tall trees near rivers. It is the most abundant type of vulture. www.callawaygardens.com /tosee/bop/african_white.htm

Oriental White-backed Vulture (Gyps benegalensis) and Long-billed Vulture (Gyps indicus) The Oriental White-backed Vulture (Gyps benegalensis) was once described as the commonest species of vulture found in the Indian sub-continent (Gilbert et al 2002). All parties agreed to a manifesto that suggests obtaining, holding and possibly breeding three Gyps species of vultures in captivity as a safety measure, until the threat of Diclofenac is removed from the environment. The necropsy of dead vultures showed that 80% of adults, 63% of sub-adults, 19% of juveniles and 13% of nestlings had visceral gout (Gilbert et al 2002) and this finding of consistent with the earlier reports from India (The Peregrine Fund 2000). www.wwfpak.org /sc_vulture.php

Film footage (Stock film ) library - Last Refuge : Lappet-faced and White-backed Vultures: Film Log CU White-backed Vultures moving around, and feeding on the dead Hippo MS a Lappet-faced Vulture feeding on carcass among White-backed Vultures, then it was scared off by others MS Vultures feeding on the carcass, another White-backed Vulture comes to land and hops to the carcass www.lastrefuge.co.uk /data/stockfilmind/vultures_log.html

Asian Vulture Population Project >> Notes The white-backed vulture has always had a smaller population that the Long-billed in Bandhavgarh and there has been a decline in numbers although my sense is that the population is stronger now than about 3 years ago. Five nests of White backed Vulture around Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve (MP) located in Jan 2004, around 32adult white backed, around 9-10 long-billed vultures, 6-7 Scavenger Vultures; By and large these ra eused by the long-billed vultures and over the years I have not noticed any apprecialble decline in the numbers of this species in Bandhavgarh. www.peregrinefund.org /vulture/notes.asp?NoteID=32

India4u - Travel - Birds In some areas, particularly the Himalayan foothills and Bangladesh, it is found in greater numbers than the White-backed Vulture, but is absent from the extreme south. Generally the most common of the vultures in the jostling, flapping rabble round a carcass. This small, bedraggled-looking vulture is common throughout the India. www.india4u.com /wildlife/birds.asp

White-backed Vulture The diagnostic white back of the adults is seen only when the bird spreads its wings. Nests in trees, not on cliffs as in Cape Vultures. Very similar to the Cape Vulture, but slightly smaller and more brown in colour. www.ltxgamebreedingcentre.co.za /White-backed%20Vulture.htm

The Peregrine Fund Adult blackish, medium-sized vulture with white lower back; underwing coverts conspicuously all white; bill and cere dark. As in other vulture species, birds tend to gorge themselves, then rest for a long period nearby while food is digested. www.peregrinefund.org /vulture_factsheet.asp

Vulture movie, Vulture video An immature feeding on carrion amongst Whitebacked Vultures. An immature feeding on carrion near Whitebacked Vultures. Vultures perching on the branches of a dead tree www.junglewalk.com /video/vulture-movie.htm

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