red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus) Sarcogyps calvus
English: Red-headed Vulture (also known as the Asian King Vulture, Indian Black Vulture or Pondicherry Vulture) at Berlin Zoo, Germany.
Date 27 July 2009, 09:44
Source 20090727 red-headed vulture 2
Author s shepherd from dayton, nj http://www.flickr.com/people/84175980@N00
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sarcogyps_calvus_-Berlin_Zoo_-upper_body-8a.jpg
The red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus) is also known as the Asian king vulture, Indian black vulture or Pondicherry vulture (though there are unrelated species in the new World which share the names king vulture and black vulture). It is mainly found in the Indian subcontinent, with small disjunct populations in some parts of Southeast Asia.
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Sarcogyps
Species: Sarcogyps calvus (Scopoli, 1786)
Synonyms:
Aegypius calvus
Torgos calvus
