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Egyption vulture identity card.
NAME: family: accipitridae, Neophron Percnopterus (meaning: black wing in Greek).
DESCRIPTION: white with black wing tips.
Its head and neck are not bare like those of the griffon vulture and the feathers of its head are ruffled.
A bare yellow-orangy skin covers its head. Airborne, its wings are tapered and its relatively long tail is cuneiform. The primaries are black.
BODY MEASURMENTS: the smallest in the vulture family with a wing span of 1.65 metres, a height of 53 - 59 cm and a weight of 2 kilos.
