White-backed vulture

White-backed Vulture
	Adult in Etosha National Park, Namibia
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Accipitriformes
Family:	Accipitridae
Genus:	Gyps
Species:	G. africanus
Binomial name
	Gyps africanus; (Salvadori, 1865)

The White-backed Vulture is a bird of the family Accipitridae which also includes eagles and hawks. They live in the African grasslands. They eat the leftovers of big cats. After their meal, they clean their feathers well so that they are always in good flying condition.[2]

Egg of Gyps africanus

References

IUCN redlist.
Morris, Neil; Hilary Bird, Paul Kilgour, Jenny Sharman (1998). Children's First Encyclopedia. Italy. p. 151. ISBN 978-1-84084-332-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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[FOOTNOTEIUCN_redlist-1] IUCN redlist.

[2] Morris, Neil; Hilary Bird, Paul Kilgour, Jenny Sharman (1998). Children's First Encyclopedia. Italy. p. 151. ISBN 978-1-84084-332-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)