Burung pemangsa (Birds of Prey)
White-rumped Vulture
Gyps bengalensis
- mistis
- 80 km/h
- Kritis
Once the most abundant large raptor on Earth, blackened to skeletal numbers by a single cattle painkiller in barely a decade. The skies above the subcontinent grew quiet, and the work it used to do for us went undone.
- Populasi
- Roughly 4,000-6,000 mature individuals (fewer than 6,000), a >99% decline since the mid-1990s
- Habitat
- Open plains, cultivated fields, and hilly terrain, typically near human settlements and villages; roosts and nests colonially in tall trees (e.g. banyan, peepul, neem, arjun) at heights of 2-18 m, and on cliffs
- Fakta menarik
- The White-rumped Vulture's population collapsed by more than 99% since the mid-1990s after it began ingesting diclofenac, a veterinary anti-inflammatory drug given to livestock, which causes fatal kidney failure in vultures that scavenge treated carcasses.
- Sebaran
- South and Southeast Asia across roughly 14 countries, historically throughout the Indian subcontinent (Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan) and into Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam; now largely extirpated from most of its former Indian-subcontinent range, with the largest remaining populations in Cambodia and Myanmar
- Makanan
- Obligate scavenger feeding almost exclusively on carrion (large mammal carcasses, including livestock and sometimes human remains), located by soaring in thermals and observing other scavengers; sometimes consumes dry bone fragments; rarely takes live prey
- Ukuran
- 0,8 m
- Bentang sayap
- 2 m
- Masa hidup
- 11,2 tahun
