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Gyps bengalensis - BirdBase

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<strong>Gyps</strong> <strong>bengalensis</strong><br />

East, Europe and Africa (Prakash 1999a). Indeed, Eurasian and Himalayan Griffons have<br />

also “declined markedly in recent years” in India (Rahmani and Prakash 2000a,b), and they<br />

have declined as winter migrants to Keoladeo National Park, Rajasthan, over the last decade,<br />

whereas resident populations of Red-headed Vulture and Egyptian Vulture Neophron<br />

percnopterus, both of which (unlike <strong>Gyps</strong> vultures) generally exploit smaller carcasses and do<br />

not feed communally, have remained stable, although breeding population sizes are small:<br />

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