The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Gyps fulvus

 – Least Concern

Taxonomy

Kingdom: ANIMALIA
Phylum: CHORDATA
Class: AVES
Order: FALCONIFORMES
Family: ACCIPITRIDAE
Scientific Name: Gyps fulvus
Species Authority: (Hablizl, 1783)
Common Name/s:
EnglishEURASIAN GRIFFON

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria: LC    ver 3.1 (2001)
Year Assessed: 2004
Assessor/s: BirdLife International
Evaluator/s: Ekstrom, J. & Butchart, S. (BirdLife International Red List Authority)
Justification: This species has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 10,000,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 100,000–1,000,000 individuals (Ferguson-Lees et al. 2001). Global population trends have not been quantified; there is evidence of population fluctuations (Ferguson-Lees et al. 2001), but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e., declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
History:
1988-Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004)
1994-Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004)
2000-Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2000)

Geographic Range

Range Description: This species has a large range, with an estimated global Extent of Occurrence of 10,000,000 km. It has a large global population estimated to be 100,000-1,000,000 individuals (Ferguson-Lees et al. 2001). Global population trends have not been quantified; there is evidence of population fluctuations (Ferguson-Lees et al. 2001), but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e. declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
Countries: Native:

Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Armenia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Egypt; Eritrea; Ethiopia; France; Georgia; Gibraltar; Greece; India; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Israel; Italy; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Lebanon; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Mali; Mauritania; Mongolia; Montenegro; Morocco; Nepal; Oman; Pakistan; Palestinian Territory, Occupied; Portugal; Russian Federation; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Serbia; Slovenia; Spain; Sudan; Syrian Arab Republic; Tajikistan; Tunisia; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Ukraine; United Arab Emirates; Uzbekistan; Yemen


Vagrant:

Bahrain; Bangladesh; Belgium; Denmark; Djibouti; Estonia; Finland; Germany; Hungary; Ireland; Kenya; Kuwait; Latvia; Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Malta; Netherlands; Niger; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland; Togo; United Kingdom; Western Sahara


Regionally extinct:

Romania

Habitat and Ecology

System: Terrestrial
List of Habitats:
3.8Shrubland - Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation
4.4Grassland - Temperate

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Bird Reference Citations. The numbers inserted in the text accounts above (usually in bold) refer to references. For further details on these references, click on the BirdLife International link above to go to the specific species account on the BirdLife web site. In some cases, particularly in the taxonomic notes, the references are cited using the author names. Details for these can be found on the BirdLife International web site at the following two places: For References from A–L. For References from M–Z.

BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.

BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.


Citation: BirdLife International 2004. Gyps fulvus. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 28 August 2008.
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