Hooded Vulture (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Hooded Vulture

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An adult Hooded Vulture in Ethiopia is shown. The once common Hooded Vulture was uplisted to critically endangered in 2015 because of drastic declines in populations across Africa. Hooded vultures are dying primarily from poisons in the carrion they eat.

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Evan R. Buechley

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