{"id":15796,"date":"2026-07-08T11:58:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T06:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15796"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:30:13","slug":"egyptian-vulture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/egyptian-vulture\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian Vulture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Egyptian Vulture Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, it was observed that once familiar in villages, temple towns, grazing lands and rocky cliffs across Southern India, the Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) has almost disappeared from much of its range.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Egyptian Vulture<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is one of <\/span><b>the world\u2019s smallest vultures.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is distributed across <\/span><b>southern Europe, northern and central Africa<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Middle East, Central Asia and the <\/span><b>Indian subcontinent<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It inhabits open, arid areas near humans, with plenty of food options.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Characteristics:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> These are monogamous, migrating between breeding seasons as a pair. They build a large nest and will constantly replenish it during the breeding season.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Diet:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Diverse feeding habit, from carrion to insects, small reptiles and amphibians and mammal faeces<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Threats:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The loss of habitat, decrease in food supply, collisions with electricity infrastructure and poisoning from the use of agricultural chemicals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Conservation status<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>IUCN:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Endangered<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Ecological Role:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It played a vital ecological role by <\/span><b>removing animal carcasses<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the landscape and helping maintain healthy ecosystems.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/understanding-the-disappearance-of-egyptian-vulture-in-tamil-nadu\/article71193097.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian Vulture  is one of the world\u2019s smallest vultures. Read more about Egyptian Vulture, Habitat, Distribution, Threats, Conservation status, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":111997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8576,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-15796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-egyptian-vulture","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112057,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796\/revisions\/112057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}