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Vultur gryphus (Andean Condor)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) is a South American bird in the New World vulture family Cathartidae and is the only member of the genus Vultur. Found in the Andes mountains and adjacent Pacific coasts of western South America, the Andean condor is the largest flying bird in the world by combined measurement of weight and wingspan. It has a maximum wingspan of 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in) exceeded only by the wingspans of four seabirds and water birds—the roughly 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in) maximum of the wandering albatross, southern royal albatross, great white pelican and Dalmatian pelican.
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Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Vultur gryphus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
22
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
58
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 43.7023
EDGE Score: 4.49317
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  24.498 lbs (11.112 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  255 grams
Female Weight [4]  22.267 lbs (10.10 kg)
Male Weight [4]  27.558 lbs (12.50 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [4]  23.8 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Scavenger [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [3]  1
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Fledging [1]  6 months
Incubation [3]  56 days
Maximum Longevity [3]  75 years
Raptor Research Conservation Priority [5]  90
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.641 feet (111 cm)
Wing Span [6]  10.004 feet (3.05 m)
Female Maturity [3]  7 years
Male Maturity [3]  7 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Chile No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Emblem of

Bolivia, Plurinational State Of
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Wallace, MP and S. Temple. 1987. Competitive interactions within and between species in a guild of avian scavengers Auk 104: 290–295
♦ 5Buechley ER, Santangeli A, Girardello M, et al. Global raptor research and conservation priorities: Tropical raptors fall prey to knowledge gaps. Divers Distrib. 2019;25:856–869. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12901
♦ 6National Geographic Magazine - January 2016 - Vultures - Elizabeth Royte
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0