Gyps
Gyps is a genus of Old World vultures that was proposed by Marie Jules César Savigny in 1809. Its members are sometimes known as griffon vultures. Gyps vultures have a slim head, a long slender neck with downy feathers, and a ruff around the neck formed by long buoyant feathers. The crown of their big beaks is a little compressed, and their big dark nostrils are set transverse to the beak. They have six or seven wing feathers, of which the first is the shortest and the fourth the longest.
| Gyps | |
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| Gyps fulvus from Naumann, Natural history of the birds of central Europe, 3rd ed. 1899 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Subfamily: | Aegypiinae |
| Genus: | Gyps Savigny, 1809 |
| Type species | |
| Gyps vulgaris = Vultur fulvus Savigny, 1809 | |
| Species | |
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8 extant, 2 extinct; see text. | |
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