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This is a White-backed Vulture.  It's very common throughout southern Africa.  Like other types of vultures, the White-backed Vulture searches for food by soaring high in the air.  Using its excellent eyesight, it looks for a freshly killed animal.  Before flying down to the kill, it circles above to signal to others that there is a kill.  It will then fly down to the area and wait until the predators have had their fill of the flesh.  The vultures then undertake the "clean-up" job of finishing the remains of the carcass.