The Himalayan vulture or Himalayan griffon vulture is an Old World vulture native to the Himalayas and the adjoining Tibetan Plateau. It is one of the two largest Old World vultures and true raptors. It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List. It is similar to the  the Eurasian griffon vulture, but its different and is a sympatric species.

It cannot sustain flapping flight, but rides the thermals very well. It spends much of its time sitting on tall crags watching herds below. They are known to bask in the sun on rocks, and are social birds, sometimes forming large flocks.

They disdain offal, which is readily eaten by other vultures, and instead typically eat only fleshy parts. Historically, Himalayan vultures regularly fed on human corpses left out on Celestial burial grounds; it is fairly contentious around other scavengers and typically dominates other meat-eaters at carrion, though is subservient to grey wolves, snow leopards and cinereous vultures at carcasses. In a large party (not uncommon), these vultures can reportedly strip a human or sheep carcass of all meat in 30 minutes and do the same to a yak carcass in roughly 120 minutes. Himalayan vultures have been observed feeding on pine needles, an unexplained behaviour as there is no significant nutritional content of the food.

Listed as not threatened, it is hard to find an estimation of the size of the population of this species.