Lappet-faced vulture – Torgos tracheliotos – is a very large vulture of the Family Accipitridae, Order Accipitriformes and is of Type – diurnal-raptor. It is sporadically distributed over much of none heavily forested Africa and the more mountainous regions of southern and eastern Arabia. In the AWB Region it occurs in the Sahel and Savannah areas of sub Saharan Africa and in western Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman and the UAE.
Type - diurnal-raptor - typically solitary, nests in trees, Summer Habitat - open bare drier areas, dry savannahs with scattered trees, often more mountainous, avoids heavily forested areas, Winter Habitat - more widespread but as above, Order..: Accipitriformes Family.: Accipitridae Genus..: Torgos
Species: Torgos tracheliotos Lappet-faced Vulture - Species - ebird.org Lappet-faced Vulture - Species Fact Sheet - birdlife.org Lappet-faced Vulture - Species Sheet - wikipedia.org Lappet-faced Vulture - Species Card - oiseaux-birds.com Lappet-faced Vulture - Range and Calls - xeno-canto.org
Additional Material... Lappet-faced Vulture - Images - google.ae Lappet-faced Vulture - Video - youtube.com Lappet-faced Vulture - Datazone - birdlife.org