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{{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 -->.
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