Egyptian vulture, Neophron percnopterus. Endangered. White scavenger vulture, pharaoh's chicken. De Aquila quam percnopterum et oripelargum & gyptaetum vocant. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Lucas Schan and Conrad Gessner from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, De avium natura, (Natural history of animals: birds), Frankfurt, Wechel for Cambier, 1585.

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
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