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In flight over Cuba. The turkey vulture received its common name from the resemblance of the adult's bald red head and dark plumage to that of the male wild turkey, while the name "vulture" is derived from the Latin word vulturus, meaning "tearer", and is a reference to its feeding habits. [9]
Rüppell's vulture: Gyps rueppellii: Accipitridae: 11,300 metres (37,100 feet). [1] [2] Vultures use their excellent eyesight to scan the landscape below from a relatively static aerial position. Instead of flying over a larger distance, they use elevation to expand their field of vision. [3] A bird strike was recorded at this height in 1973 ...
The bald eagle was one of the many species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his 18th-century work Systema Naturae, under the name Falco leucocephalus. [9] The bald eagle forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle of Eurasia. This species pair consists of a white-headed and a tan-headed species of roughly equal size; the white ...
A turkey vulture nest this year in an old silo in Mequon highlights the general increase and adaptability of the species in Wisconsin. ... Turkey vultures are fairly easy to identify in flight ...
The DNA-based proposal and the NACC and IOC classifications include the New World vultures in the Accipitriformes, [7] [11] while the SACC classifies the New World vultures as a separate order, the Cathartiformes. When Cathartiformes is considered a separate order, sister to Accipitriformes, Accipitriformes sensu lato is called Accipitrimorphae.
In the air, wild turkeys can fly and have a top-flight speed of about 55 miles per hour, which is about as fast as a car on a highway. Selective breeding diminished the domestic turkey’s ability ...
Bald eagles fight over a fish from North Fork of the Nooksack River in January. Past studies in the area have shown only about 100 bald eagles in an 18-mile stretch of the Nooksack River, but that ...
Bald eagle This is a comprehensive listing of the bird species recorded in Yellowstone National Park , which is mostly in the U.S. state of Wyoming and also extends into Idaho and Montana . This list is based on one published by the National Park Service (NPS) dated June 2021 that contains 284 species when taxonomic changes have been made.