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CMS Instruments | Birds of Prey (Raptors) (2015), CMS |
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IUCN Status | Critically endangered |
Date of entry in Appendix I | 2017 |
Date of entry in Appendix II | 1979 |
English | White-headed Vulture |
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French | Vautour à tête blanche |
Spanish | Buitre cabeciblanco |
German | Wollkopfgeier |
Formerly listed as | part of the order Falconiformes |
Class | Aves |
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Order | Accipitriformes |
Family | Accipitridae |
Scientific name | Trigonoceps occipitalis |
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