El buitre encapuchado, vemos muchas de estas aves en Gambia. Por lo general, en nuestras visitas regulares paseos por la playa to Sanyang on Sundays. There is usually a dead fish, turtle or some such thing and guaranteed anything from one to thirty vultures eagerly ripping at the carcus.
Información de aves.
¿Dónde podemos ver un buitre encapuchado?
The Hooded vultures pictured above were fotografiado at the quarry on the way to the beach and approximately midway between us and Sanyang. You can expect to find them anywhere there is a dead and rotting fish or animal.
¿Cómo es un buitre encapuchado?
It is a scruffy-looking, small vulture with dark brown plumage, a long thin bill, bare crown, face and fore-neck, and a downy nape and hind-neck. Its face is usually a light red colour. The hooded vulture is a typical vulture, with a head that is usually pinkish-white, but flushes red when agitated and a grey to black “hood”. It has fairly uniform dark brown body plumage and broad wings for soaring with short tail feathers. This is one of the smaller Old World vultures.
They are 62–72 cm long, have a 155–180 cm wingspan and a body weight of 1.5–2.6 kg. Both sexes appear alike, although females often have longer eyelashes than males. Juveniles look like adults, only darker and plainer, and body feathers have a purplish sheen. Fuente Wikipedia
¿De qué se alimenta?
Cualquier cosa muerta y también, a veces, sobre insectos como las termitas cuando emergen en grandes cantidades.
¿Quieres conocer un dato interesante?
It is critically endangered in most of the world except, in West Africa the biggest numbers are found right here in The Gambia.
¿Qué sonido hace?
No hacen mucho sonido, sin embargo, tienen una especie de silbido cuando se acoplan.
