Lappet-faced Vulture
Torgos tracheliotos
IUCN: Endangered
Taxonomy
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Family
- Accipitridae
- Genus
- Torgos
- eBird Code
- lafvul1
Subspecies (2)
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Torgos tracheliotos negevensis
Arabian Peninsula (formerly also southern Israel)
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Torgos tracheliotos tracheliotos
southern Mauritania eastward to southeastern Egypt and Somalia, southward to Namibia, northern South Africa, and Swaziland; extirpated in northwestern Africa (southwestern Morocco and Western Sahara)
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.