Gyps
Himalayan Griffon (Gyps himalayensis)
The range of this species extends throughout the highlands of central and south-central Asia, from the Altai Mountains and Tien Shan south to the foothills of the Himalayas in northern Pakistan, east from here throughout the Himalayas to northeast Myanmar and adjacent southern China, and north into central and north-central China.
Monotypic.
Photo by
@Deer Forest
White-rumped Vulture (Gyps bengalensis)
The range of this species extends in a fragmented and much-depopulated distribution throughout much of southern Asia, from eastern Pakistan in the west, through India and Nepal to Myanmar and southern China in the east; disjunct populations extend patchily to the west in Afghanistan and Iran, and to the south into Indochina.
Monotypic.
Photo by
@alexkant
White-backed Vulture (Gyps africanus)
The range of this species extends throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, from southern Mauritania and Senegal in the west to Eritrea and Ethiopia in the east, and south from here to northern Namibia in the west and northern and eastern South Africa in the east; absent from the Congo Basin and Horn of Africa.
Monotypic.
Photo by
@vogelcommando
Indian Vulture (Gyps indicus)
The range of this species extends from southeast Pakistan into western, southwest and central Peninsular India.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.
Slender-billed Vulture (Gyps tenuirostris)
The range of this species extends in a patchy and highly-fragmented distribution throughout the southern foothills of the Himalayas, from northwest India in the west, through Nepal and north-central India to northeast India, Bhutan and northern Myanmar in the east, and south from here throughout eastern Myanmar; a disjunct population exists in southeast Indochina. Formerly extended much more widely throughout Indochina and the Malay Peninsula.
Monotypic.
Photo by
@Maguari
Cape Vulture (Gyps coprotheres)
The range of this species extends patchily throughout southern Africa, from southeast Botswana and southern Zimbabwe in the north, through southern Mozambique, Swaziland and northeast South Africa to Lesotho and southeast South Africa; a disjunct population exists in the Western Cape.
Monotypic.
Photo by
@Maguari
Rüppell's Vulture (Gyps rueppelli)
The range of this species extends throughout much of the Sahel and adjacent areas of sub-Saharan Africa, from southwest Mauritania and Senegal in the west to Ethiopia and northern Somalia in the east, and south from here into northeast DRC and northern Tanzania.
Two subspecies recognised:
G. r. rueppelli - photo by
@ro6ca66
G. r. erlangeri - photo by
@Maguari
Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus)
The resident breeding range of this species extends patchily from the Iberian Peninsula and northwest Africa, throughout the Mediterranean into Asia Minor, the Caucasus and Arabian Peninsula, and from here into Central Asia and the southern foothills of the Himalayas as far east as northeast India. Wintering populations occur in the northern Sahel of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Middle East.
Two subspecies recognised:
G. f. fulvus - photo by
@Merintia
G. f. fulvescens
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