African vulture
africanus
Distribution
South of the Sahara: from Mauritania in the west, to Ethiopia in the east, to South Africa via East Africa.
Habitat
Savannah
Incubation
56 days
Longevity
19 years old
Weight
4 – 7 kg
Size
94 cm, 210 - 220 cm wingspan
Diet
Scavenger
Conservation status
:
Critically Endangered Species
The Savannah Cleaner
Also known as a white-backed vulture, this vulture inhabits wooded savannahs, where it finds tall trees to nest in and the corpses of large herbivores. There can be several hundred of them on such carrion, which they clean completely in a few minutes…
A common vulture in Africa, its numbers have nevertheless fallen dramatically in recent years. The cause: the conversion of savannahs into agricultural areas, persecution, hunting…
Our African vultures share a large aviary with griffon vultures… which you will be able to enter. Except from December to April (approximately): the pair of vultures is then in the middle of the breeding season!
