| Red-headed vulture | |
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| Male in Bandhavgarh National Park, India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Genus: | Sarcogyps Lesson, 1842 |
| Species: | S. calvus
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| Binomial name | |
| Sarcogyps calvus (Scopoli, 1786)
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| Current distribution range of red headed vulture | |
| Synonyms | |
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The red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus), also known as the Asian king vulture, Indian black vulture or Pondicherry vulture,[2] is an Old World vulture mainly found in the Indian subcontinent, with small disjunct populations in some parts of Southeast Asia.
- ^ BirdLife International (2021). "Sarcogyps calvus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T22695254A205031246. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
- ^ Ali, S. (1993). The Book of Indian Birds. Bombay: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-0-19-563731-1.