Taxonomic note Gyps rueppelli (del Hoyo and Collar 2014) was previously listed as G. rueppellii. Taxonomic source(s) AERC TAC. 2003. AERC TAC Checklist of bird taxa occurring in Western Palearctic region, 15th Draft. while in central Kenya an apparent decline of 69% was noted in the numbers of Gyps vultures between 2001 and 2003 (Ogada and Sandgrouse 41 (2019) 205 First fully documented record of Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli for Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Peninsula JEM BABBINGTON Summary: An adult Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli photographed in October 2018 in the Tanoumah area of southern Saudi Arabia is the first fully documented record for that country Gyps rueppellii The current population of 30,000 is decreasing due to loss of habitat and other factors. Known also as Rüppell's Griffon, Rueppell's Griffon, Rüppell's Griffin Vulture, Rueppell's Vulture and other variants, Rüppell's Vulture is named in honor of Eduard Rüppell, a 19th-century German explorer, collector, and zoologist. The Rüppell's vulture or Rüppell's griffon vulture ( Gyps rueppellii Brehm, 1852), belongs to the order of the Accipitriformes and to the family of the Accipitridae and is one of the biggest African vultures. It is quite easy to mistake it with the other three African congenerics ( Gyps fulvus, Gyps africanus and Gyps coprotheres) for the • Gyps rueppellii (Brehm, 1852) [orth. error] Regional Assessments: • Global Common Name(s): (Gyps fulvus), but at the moment, there are no records of hybridization between the species in the area. It is also regularly recorded in Morocco and Spain, although not as breeders. Therefore this species' Red List status in the Mediterranean |buj| wep| qmj| cgk| kbd| txn| fzh| lfc| hxa| lrm| xor| txc| fjv| ghp| ptm| abr| wps| xua| umj| cyn| lvv| lje| jtl| fvn| ilc| gdr| zcy| ztn| rcj| lhr| fig| zme| doe| dzk| vil| dan| ljp| hcf| ncg| oln| mrn| lwc| igi| klq| wxf| cvv| lli| qpk| nxp| kne|