Nestling White-backed Vulture (<i>Gyps africanus</i>) eaten by a Verreaux’s Eagle (<i>Aquila verreauxii</i>) at a nest occupied for a record 21 years.

Abstract

An adult Verreaux’s Eagle ( Aquila verreauxii ) was observed eating a White-backed Vulture ( Gyps africanus ) nestling at a nest at Sango in the Save Valley Conservancy, south-eastern Zimbabwe on 13 October 2017. This nest has been regularly occupied for 21 successive breeding seasons. To our knowledge, this observation represents a previously unrecorded species in the diet of Verreaux’s Eagle, and it is also apparently the longest known continually-occupied White-backed Vulture nest.