necrosyrtes monachus

A group of hooded vultures were waiting to feast on a lion's kill carcass

gambia 2014

sadly nowadays rare as hen's teeth, these stunning birds were roosting with hooded vultures near our banda at the new Samburu Rhino camp in northern Kenya. Pity it's not a better photo....

Couple resting at the of a long flying day

A group of soaring raptors over Bishoftu (Debre Zeit) in Southern Ethiopia. I think they are yellow billed kites, hooded vultures, a tawny eagle, some steppe eagles and two others. Can anyone help with the two central birds with their wings pointing top to bottom?

This is a picture I took on the last trip to Senegal. I think it's a good portrait of four African Vultures. From left to right: Hooded Vulture, Rppell's Griffon, Eurasian Griffon and White-backed Vulture. During the next trip It would be good to add a Lappet-faced and a White-headed Vulture on...

Savuti Camp, Botswana

One from the Senegambia Hotel's garden where they are fed on a daily basis.

One of the many Hooded Vultures that congregate for a free snack at the Senegambia Hotel every morning,along with Brown Kites and two or three bravely optimistic Cattle Egrets.

It was interesting to observe, and a possible concern, that in a 3-week tour of Uganda I only saw vultures inside national parks. Hooded Vulture was the only exception, with 2 birds in the town of Masindi on my last day. The bird in this image was photographed at Queen Elizabeth National Park.

For the most part, the vulture feed we watched was amicable, but these two really had a go at each other.

Taken in the Kruger National Park, South Africa

This was taken at a beach beside the hotel grounds where we stayed. there was fresh water from a small burn and the birds made the most of it.

Hooded Vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) resting in the grass.

About 1 days earlier, the resident male lion had killed a young Wildebeast. This day, he seemed to be satisfied with the amount he could eat, and the vultures had reduced the rest to almost nothing by the time we came by and I took this photo.

Adult (right) and sub-adult

hooded vulture coming in to land