White-headed vulture
| White-headed vulture | |
|---|---|
| At Las Águilas Jungle Park, Tenerife, Spain | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Genus: | Trigonoceps Lesson, 1842 |
| Species: | T. occipitalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Trigonoceps occipitalis (Burchell, 1824) | |
| Range of T. occipitalis Resident Possibly Extant (resident) Non-breeding Probably extinct Extinct | |
The white-headed vulture (Trigonoceps occipitalis) is an Old World vulture endemic to Africa. Populations have been declining steeply in recent years due to habitat degradation and poisoning of vultures at carcasses. An extinct relative was also present in the Indonesian island of Flores during the Late Pleistocene, indicating that the genus was more widespread in the past.