| 词条 | Gyps | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| image = griffon.JPG | image_caption = Griffon vulture Gyps fulvus | taxon = Gyps | authority = Savigny, 1809 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. }}Gyps (from Greek γύψ gýps, "vulture") is a genus of Old World vultures in the bird family Accipitridae. Created by Marie Jules César Savigny in 1809, it contains the following extant species: Extant Species
These are the typical vultures, with bald head, broad wings and mainly dark plumage. They are large scavenging birds, feeding mostly from carcasses of dead animals. Old World vultures find carcasses exclusively by sight. Representatives of this group are found throughout warmer parts of the Old World. Compared to other vultures, Gyps species have quite feathered heads, with characteristic downy covers. Indeed, rather than being an adaptation for scavenging as once thought, it seems to be related to thermoregulation. A prehistoric species is known only from fossil remains found in Middle to Late Pleistocene sites all over the central and eastern Mediterranean: Gyps melitensis. Recently, a fossil species Gyps bochenskii has been described from the late Pliocene in Bulgaria.[1] References1. ^Boev, Z. 2010. Gyps bochenskii sp. n. (Aves: Falconiformes) from the Late Pliocene of Varshets (NW Bulgaria). – Acta zoologica bulgarica, 62 (2): 211-242. }} External links{{Commons|Gyps}}{{Vulture}}{{Taxonbar|from=Q126630}} 3 : Gyps|Bird genera|Taxa named by Marie Jules César Savigny |
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