- Gyps bengalensis
Description
aka Asian White-backed Vulture one of the victims of the persistance of Towers of Silence allowing the eating of flesh of people having made use of certain anti-inflammatory pharmaceutical preparations in life.
Identification
Distribution & Taxonomy
Southern Asia: formerly widespread and common from northern and eastern Pakista, throughout India, Burma and south-west China east to Vietnam and south to the central Malay Peninsula. In decline in recent years through an epidemic affecting Gyps vultures in Asia.
Sometimes as conspecific with African White-backed Vulture G. africanus.
Habitat
Searches for carrion over farmland and grassland, often occurs close to towns and villages. Nests in trees.
Behaviour
Sightings on Pokhara Valley of Nepal.
White-rumped vulture has been sighted along the Seti river on the Bombax ceiba trees on the cultivated lands on the riverside. Future surveys will identify in what number they occur. Now it is only confirmed that this species is found in Pokhara valley of Nepal.
