Le Chaugoun white-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis) is an Old World vulture native to South and Southeast Asia. It has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2000, as the population severely declined. White-rumped vultures die of kidney failure caused by diclofenac poisoning from the Book Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique [Natural History of birds of Africa] by Le Vaillant, François, 1753-1824; Publish in Paris by Chez Fuchs, libraire .1799

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