There have been very few more dramatic, fast and wide scale species declines of any birds or other taxa than those of South Asian Gyps vulture populations since the 1990s. —Chris Bowden, Globally Threatened Species Officer, Royal Society For The Protection Of Birds (RSPB), UK (in The Current Threats And Status of Asian Vultures , 2018) It is quite an alarming statement, but it is the sad truth about the vultures of India. Even today, four of the nine vulture species in India fall under the ... The Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus), also called the Eurasian Black Vulture , is one of the heaviest and largest birds of prey in the world. It is a powerful scavenger found across parts of Europe and Asia, especially in dry, mountainous or hilly regions. Identification Dark brown to black plumage with a thick, woolly-looking neck ruff What is a vulture ? Vultures are large, social raptors that live on every continent except Antarctica and Australia. The 23 species are divided into New World vultures from the Americas and Old ...
