Indian vulture
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The Indian vulture or long-billed vulture is a bird of prey native to the Indian subcontinent. It is an Old World vulture belonging to the family of Accipitridae. It is a medium-sized vulture with a s
Indian vulture Photograph by Shantanu Kuveskar
White-rumped vulture (left) and Indian vulture (right)
Indian vulture in flight showing its wing span
An Indian vulture flying
Indian vulture crisis
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Nine species of vulture can be found living in India, but most are now endangered after a rapid and major population collapse exceeding 99.5% in recent decades. In the early 1980s, three species of Gy
Indian vulture
…a keystone species that has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2002, as the population has severely declined during the Indian vulture crisis. It is estimated that there are 5,000-15,000 mature individuals in the wild. The main cause of the decline was identified as kidney failure caused by…
The white-rumped vulture, one of the species devastated in the crisis
A flock of endangered white-rumped and Indian vultures
Diclofenac available in 2009