Gyps 439824 195981059 2008-03-05T05:53:00Z BOTarate 5870361 robot Adding: [[hr:Supovi]] {{Taxobox | name = ''Gyps'' | image = griffon.JPG | image_caption = [[Griffon Vulture]] ''Gyps fulvus'' | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[bird|Aves]] | ordo = [[Falconiformes]] | familia = [[Accipitridae]] | genus = '''''Gyps''''' | genus_authority = [[Marie Jules César Savigny|Savigny]], 1809 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. }} The '''''Gyps''''' vultures are a genus of [[Old World vulture]]s in the [[bird]] family Accipitridae, which also includes [[eagle]]s, [[kite (bird)|kite]]s, [[buzzard]]s and [[hawk]]s. These are the typical vultures, with bald head, broad wings and mainly dark [[plumage]]. They are large [[scavenger|scavenging]] birds, feeding mostly from carcasses of dead [[animal]]s. Old World vultures find carcasses exclusively by sight. Representatives of this group are found throughout warmer parts of the [[Old World]]. The characteristic featherless head is because a feathered head would become spattered with [[blood]] and other fluids, and thus be difficult to keep clean. == Species == * [[Griffon Vulture]] ''Gyps fulvus'' * [[Indian White-rumped Vulture]], ''Gyps bengalensis'' * [[Rüppell's Vulture]], ''Gyps rueppelli'' * [[Indian Vulture]], ''Gyps indicus'' - formerly Long-billed Vulture * [[Slender-billed Vulture]], ''Gyps tenuirostris'' - formerly included in ''G. indicus'' * [[Himalayan Griffon Vulture]] ''Gyps himalayensis'' * [[White-backed Vulture]], ''Gyps africanus'' * [[Cape Griffon]], ''Gyps coprotheres'' There is another, prehistoric, species, known only from [[fossil]] remains found in [[Middle Pleistocene|Middle]] to [[Late Pleistocene]] sites all over the central and eastern [[Mediterranean]]: ''Gyps melitensis''<!-- Ardeola51:91; IntGeolCongr32FieldTripGuideBookB07 -->. {{Commons|Gyps}} [[Category:Gyps|*]] [[Category:Genera of birds]] [[bg:Белоглави лешояди]] [[de:Gänsegeier (Gattung)]] [[es:Gyps]] [[fr:Gyps]] [[hr:Supovi]] [[it:Gyps]] [[he:נשר]] [[ka:ორბი]] [[hu:Gyps]] [[tr:Gyps]]