Is the Hooded Vulture a natural vagrant to Europe? [¿Es el Alimoche Sombrío, ¿un divagante natural a Europa?]
The Hooded Vulture from Tarifa. 2.9.2007.2nd for Spain (Lucía Espigares) On 2nd September 2007 a Hooded Vulture ( Necrosyrtes monachus ) was photographed near the Algarrobo bird observatory at Tarifa, Cádiz (Lucía Espigares). News were not spread since the bird went undetected within other raptors feeding on a carrion in that area. David Cuenca Espinosa when having the opportunity of seeing the photos noticed the presence of a Hooded Vulture and notified us the sighting. A photo is reproduced above (Lucía Espigares). The Hooded Vulture is an African species present in Savannah and open habitats from S Mauritania across Mali , Niger , Chad and Sudan to Ethiopia and Somalia to Namibia , Botswana and S Africa (see a map below from oiseaux.net) The species is regarded as of Least Concern conservation status given its more or less stable population (see the Birdlife fact sheet on the species here ). WP occurrences There are at least three records in Morocco (Thévenot e...