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with that of the long-billed vulture (Gyps indicus) having fallen by more than 97%. These declines are continuing: white-backed vulture populations declined by an average of 50% in each year ...
Gyps indicus and Gyps tenuirostris are critically endangered following dramatic declines in South Asia resulting from exposure to diclofenac, a veterinary drug present in the livestock carcasses ...
Vultures At Risk From Deadly Traces Of Pain Killer Date: August 15, 2006 Source: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Summary: Asian vultures are at risk of lethal kidney failure if they feed from carcasses ...
Critically Endangered Indian vultures (Gyps indicus) hanging out in their nest at Orchha, Madhya Pradesh. Photo by: Yann/Creative Commons 3.0. When Europeans first arrived in North America ...
Today, the number of the first species, the long-billed vulture (gyps indicus) has gone up to 28 while the number of the Oriental white-backed vulture (gyps bengalensis) is 150. NAVI MUMBAI ...
Long-billed Vultures (Gyps indicus) followed with 31 in Tamil Nadu and 50 in the NBR, while Red-headed Vultures (Sarcogyps calvus) hit 11 and 47, respectively. Five juvenile Egyptian Vultures ...
Today the bird is considered to be "critically endangered", as are long-billed (Gyps indicus) and slender-billed (Gyps tenuirostris) vultures which have been through a similar decline. The decision to ...
The population of the critically endangered long-billed vulture (Gyps indicus) has seen a steady increase between 2015 and 2021, with the species exhibiting a 74% breeding success rate in the ...
Topping the list are the White-Rumped Vulture (Gyps bengalensis) and the Indian Vulture (Gyps indicus indicus), which are listed as ‘Critically Endangered,’ under the International Union for ...
Oriental White-backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis), Long-billed vulture (Gyps indicus) and Slender-billed vulture (Gyps tenuirostris). A DNA analysis of 153 vultures caught from the wild for captive ...
Asian vultures are at risk of lethal kidney failure if they feed from carcasses of a cow that died up to four days after treatment with the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac. Writing in the new ...