Cinereous Vulture, Aegypius monachus, is a species of day-flying bird of prey found in woodland and forest and unvegetated or sparsely vegetated land ecosystems. It is a patchily distributed resident in parts of Southern Europe (i.e. Spain, Portugal, small parts of France and Greece, and large part of Turkey). The species inhabits forested areas in hills and mountains at 300–1,500 m. Two different eco-geographical categories occur in Europe: lowland sierras covered by dense Mediterranean maquis (Spain and Greece) and sub alpine forests (Spain). It forages over many kinds of open terrain, including forest, bare mountains, steppe and open grasslands (European Red List 2015).

Aegypius monachus has a breeding population size of 2100-2200 pairs and a breeding range size of 38000 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Increasing in the short term and Increasing in the long term.

The EU population status of Aegypius monachus was assessed as Secure, because the species does not meet any of the IUCN Red List criteria for threatened or Near Threatened, or the criteria for Depleted or Declining (the EU27 population or range has not declined by 20% or more since 1980).