Cinereous Vulture
- Recently bird watchers and researchers were baffled to find Cinereous vulture in Hazaribagh in Jharkhand because it is usually found in northern parts of India up to Rajasthan.
- Cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) draws its name from “monachus”, which means hooded (like a monk) in Latin.
- India is home to nine species of vultures and with the population of these birds dwindling, the country has launched a species-recovery plan through conservation breeding centres in different parts of the country.
- It is also known as the black vulture, monk vulture, or Eurasian black vulture.
- It is classified as Near Threatened under the IUCN Red ....
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