10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2013

In short, the accepted view used to be that a small breeding population of Egyptian Vultures inhabited Southern Africa, but has vanished facing the spread of towns, roads and farms. In the 1970s we had two to four breeding pairs, in the 1980s one to two, in the 1990s it was zero to two (irregular breeding).

Sudan 244

Sudan Macedonia Botswana Serbia 244

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. It holds the large food item at the tip of its bill and throws its head back quickly, swallowing it whole. Other threats arise from illegal logging, hunting for bushmeat, and other body parts (feathers, beak, etc.)

Rhinoceros 137

Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 137

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Very little information was available at the time, so we hired a car and off we went, following the few tips we had managed to gather but mostly our noses. Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season.

Ghana 207

Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 207