Iraq - June (1 Viewer)

[Gretchen]

My husband has been seeing a lot of raptors while taking walks in a valley. We are in the northernmost part of Iraq (western Kurdistan) and this picture is from this past week. Getting pictures with his phone hasn't been easy, but I thought this might be pretty easy to identify. It looks to me like an Egyptian Vulture, which is pretty new for us. What do you think?

 

[dwatsonbirder]

Certainly is, at least a 3cy bird by the looks of it.

 

[KenM]

Egyptian Vulture.👍

Cheers

 

[Gretchen]

Thank you! The coloring is quite clear (therefore a 3cy I guess) which made me more confident, but still I wanted to be sure before putting it up on ebird. I may put up some less clear pictures in coming days and see if you can help with those too.