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Copyright: Subhayan Mandal (shabsslg) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 65 W: 0 N: 78] (570)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-06-14
Categories: Birds
Camera: Sony Cybershot DSC-H2, Carl-Zeiss Vario-Tesser 12X Optical Zoom
Exposure: f/5.0, 1/125 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Indian Vultures, Bandhavgarh [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2008-06-19 9:22
Viewed: 328
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
This is a red headed vulture - Sarcogyps calvus.

Also known as the Asian King Vulture, Indian Black Vulture or Pondicherry Vulture, is a species of Old World vulture found in South Asia.

Up to 85 cm (34 in) long, this gaudy-faced vulture was historically abundant with range over south-central and south-eastern Asia extending from Pakistan to Singapore. Today the range of the Red-headed Vulture is localized primarily to Nepal and northern India where it is found in open country and in cultivated and semi-desert areas.

It used to be declining, but only slowly; in 1994 it was uplisted to Near Threatened from Least Concern by the IUCN. The widespread use of the NSAID Diclofenac - a compound now known to be extremely poisonous to vultures - in veterinary medicine in India has caused its population to collapse in recent years, however. The population of this species has essentially halved every other year since the late 1990s, and what once was a plentiful species numbering in the hundreds of thousands has come dangerously close to extinction in a mere decade-and-a-half or so. Consequently it is uplisted to Critically Endangered in the 2007 IUCN Red List.

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  • Heaven Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 407 W: 83 N: 768] (2929)
  • [2008-06-19 12:26]

Hi Subhayan!

During my holidays a couple of days ago I was lucky to see some vultures flying above the island of Krk (Croatia). They are very beautiful and majestic in the air, quite "ugly" on the ground. In Croatia the population is also growing. I like the position of the vulture here and he seems to be ready to tske off.

Kind regards

Markus

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  • siggi Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 196 W: 2 N: 501] (1904)
  • [2008-06-19 12:33]

Hello Walt
Hello Subhayan,
Nice shot. Good POV. Image is a bit dark to get a good look at the face, but he is a spectacular bird. Have uploaded a workshop where I have lightened the shot.. Nice job. Siggi

Ciao subhayan,
I like very much vultures and you have takes a gret shot of this.

Silvia

Nice shot. Good composition and POV. The way it is siting in a typical 'vulture like' pose is looking great.

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  • foozi Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 154 W: 0 N: 123] (661)
  • [2008-07-12 23:10]

Hello subhayan,
a great shot of the vulture. Well composed and you designed a natural framing for him too. Great clarity and sharpness. Look so strong and brutal.

regards,
Foozi

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