Red-headed vulture, Sarcogyps calvus. Critically endangered.

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Red-headed vulture, Sarcogyps calvus. Critically endangered. (Pondicherry vulture, Vultur ponticerianus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1810.

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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