# Slender-billed Vulture Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/bad-at-goodbyes-7020095/slender-billed-vulture Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/bad-at-goodbyes-7020095/slender-billed-vulture.md Podcast: [Bad at Goodbyes](https://stenobird.com/podcast/bad-at-goodbyes-7020095) Published: 2026-03-04T12:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://badatgoodbyes.com/slender-billed-vulture.html Audio file: https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/785cd18b-1d65-4413-9d4a-11681756b7f2.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/bad-at-goodbyes-7020095/episodes/slender-billed-vulture Duration seconds: 2334 ## Resource Slender-billed Vulture :: Gyps tenuirostris Bad at Goodbyes :: Episode 069 On today’s show we learn about the Slender-billed Vulture, a critically endangered avian raptor, a bird of prey, native to South and Southeast Asia, specifically Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos. Its scientific name is Gyps tenuirostris and it was first described in 1844. (00:05) Intro (02:05) Species Information (27:51) Citations (29:43) Music (37:03) Pledge For more information about Slender-billed Vulture conservation please see Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction at https://save-vultures.org . Research for today’s show was compiled from: BirdLife International. 2021. Gyps tenuirostris. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T22729460A204781113. – https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T22729460A204781113.en BirdLife International (2021). Species factsheet: Slender-billed Vulture Gyps tenuirostris. – https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/slender-billed-vulture-gyps-tenuirostris 25/02/2026 del Hoyo, J., N. Collar, and J. S. Marks (2020). Slender-billed Vulture (Gyps tenuirostris), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA.– https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.slbvul1.01 Hille, Sabine M., Fränzi Korner-Nievergelt, Maarten Bleeker, and Nigel J. Collar. “Foraging Behaviour at Carcasses in an Asian Vulture Assemblage: Towards a Good Restaurant Guide.” Bird Conservation International 26, no. 3 (2016): 263–72. – https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270915000349 Jackson, A. L., Ruxton, G. D., & Houston, D. C. (2008). The effect of social facilitation on foraging success in vultures: a modelling study. Biology letters, 4(3), 311–313. – https://do… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/bad-at-goodbyes-7020095/episodes/slender-billed-vulture/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/bad-at-goodbyes-7020095/slender-billed-vulture.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.