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Accipitriformes / Accipitridae / Torgos

Lappet-faced Vulture

Torgos tracheliotos

IUCN: Endangered

Data Sources

AviList 2025 eBird (lafvul1) Avibase

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

Taxonomy

Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Torgos

Subspecies (2)

Torgos tracheliotos negevensis

Arabian Peninsula (formerly also southern Israel)
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

AviList 2025 eBird (lafvul1) Avibase

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.