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Please ID this vulture (2 Viewers)

Ains

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Today snapped 4 vultures the other three I have identified as Himilayan griffon immature, and the one I've posted because of its morph I'm unfamiliar with its identity. Please Id this vulture/griffon.
Location Mount Abu Rajasthan India.

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This is one of the other 4 birds. I snapped today. Thanks, Butty, I'll go with an immature Himalayan vulture.

Himalayan Griffon - Gyps himalayensis 0F4A9565.JPG
 
Yes, both are Himalayan Vultures. The first bird is first-year and second bird second-year. In this slowly maturing and moulting species the first two age classes are very similar, especially in (quite frequent) cases like this when no secondaries are moulted during the second calendar year. Also the next age class will not be too different.
 
Compared to first-year White-rumped: huge wings compared to very small head with very pale feathering, longish tail and long undertail-coverts, broad body. Compared to first-year Eurasian Griffon: darker colder brown body plumage with more prominent streaking, narrower pale bars on underwing coverts.
 
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