Long-billed Vulture

It breeds on crags or in trees in mountains in India and South-east Asia, laying one egg. Birds may form loose colonies. The population is mostly resident.

Like other vultures it is a scavenger, feeding mostly from carcasses of dead animals which it finds by soaring over savannah and around human habitation. It often moves in flocks.

The Long-billed Vulture is a typical vulture, with a bald head, very broad wings and short tail. It is smaller and less heavily-built than European Griffon. It is distinguished from that species by its less buff body and wing coverts[?] It also lacks the whitish median covert[?] bar shown by Griffon.

This vulture and Indian White-rumped Vulture, G. bengalensis, have suffered a 99% decrease in India due to a viral epidemic.