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Cinereous vulture
Why is it in news?
- Cinereous vulture spotted in Jharkhand
- It is usually during the winter that a distinctly dark large bird – the Cinereous vulture, with a blacked-tipped pink beak – migrates from the mountainous regions of Europe and Asia to warmer places, including India.
- While earlier records of this migratory bird have revealed that it comes to northern parts of India up to Rajasthan, bird watchers and researchers were baffled to find it in Hazaribagh in Jharkhand.
Cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus)
- The cinereous vulture is one of the heaviest and largest raptors in the world.
- It is a dark brown and broad-winged species with a slightly wedge-shaped tail.
- The bald head and neck are a bluish gray, with a fluffy collar which is lighter in older birds. I
- In many countries, this bird is called ‘monk vulture’, because of it’s upright standing neck feathers that resemble the hood of a monk.
Source
The Hindu