#1193 · 🐦 birds

Rüppell's Griffon

🇳🇱 Rüppells Gier ·Gyps rueppelli

CRcritically endangered 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

Rüppell's vulture ( Gyps rueppelli ), also called Rüppell's griffon vulture or Rüppell's griffon , a species of vulture named after Eduard Rüppell, is a large, resident bird of prey, mainly native to the Sahel region and East Africa. It is considered to be the highest-flying bird, with confirmed evidence of a flight at an altitude of 11,300 m (37,000 ft), where the average temperature is about −56 °C (−69 °F). The former population of 22,000 individuals has been decreasing due to loss...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,200iNaturalist observations
weight 7.6 kgadult, up to
threat CRcritically endangered

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
2,200 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs up to about 7.6 kg.
Listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List.