Eating a bird similar to the vulture

Question

Question: There is a bird like the vulture — with a long neck, a beak and a large build. Together with the vultures it usually also eats carrion. Likewise, it sometimes hunts fish or river animals with its beak and eats them. But mostly it subsists on eating carrion. Is it permissible or impermissible to eat it?

Answer

It is impermissible.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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