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The turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) is the most widespread of the New World vultures. [2] One of three species in the genus Cathartes of the family Cathartidae, the turkey vulture ranges from southern Canada to the southernmost tip of South America. It inhabits a variety of open and semi-open areas, including subtropical forests, shrublands ...
Species C. aura (Linnaeus, 1758); C. burrovianus Cassin, 1845; C. melambrotus Wetmore, 1964; Approximate distribution of the genus Cathartes.Green indicates that at least one species is resident year-round and yellow shows areas where one species, the turkey vulture, is a summer-only breeding visitor.
Turkey vulture Cathartes aura: Throughout the Americas to southern Canada Least concern: Lesser yellow-headed vulture Cathartes burrovianus: South America and north to Mexico 500,000-4,999,999 [21] mature individuals Least concern: Greater yellow-headed vulture Cathartes melambrotus: Amazon Basin of tropical South America Least concern ...
The black vulture locates food either by sight or by following New World vultures of the genus Cathartes to carcasses. [54] These vultures—the turkey vulture, the lesser yellow-headed vulture, and the greater yellow-headed vulture—forage by detecting the scent of ethyl mercaptan, a gas produced by the beginnings of decay in dead animals. [55]
Turkey vultures, [6] (Cathartes aura) (Greek katartes, "purifier", aura, from Latin aurum, "gold"), can be described as large brownish-black vultures with two-toned colors on the underside of their wings. Grown adults will have a red head. There are three other subspecies of turkey vulture located throughout North and Central America.
A vulture is a bird of prey that scavenges on carrion. There are 23 extant species of vulture (including condors ). [ 2 ] Old World vultures include 16 living species native to Europe , Africa , and Asia ; New World vultures are restricted to North and South America and consist of seven identified species, all belonging to the Cathartidae family .
The lesser yellow-headed vulture was first described in 1845 by John Cassin. [4] It is sometimes recognized as having two subspecies. The first, Cathartes burrovianus urubitinga, described by Austrian ornithologist August von Pelzeln in 1851, is the larger of the two and is found from Argentina north to Colombia, while the nominate subspecies, Cathartes burrovianus burrovianus, is smaller and ...
King vulture: Cathartidae: Sarcoramphus papa (Linnaeus, 1758) 2 Andean condor: Cathartidae: Vultur gryphus Linnaeus, 1758: 3 Black vulture: Cathartidae: Coragyps atratus (Bechstein, 1793) 4 Turkey vulture: Cathartidae: Cathartes aura (Linnaeus, 1758) 5 Lesser yellow-headed vulture: Cathartidae: Cathartes burrovianus Cassin, 1845: 6 Greater ...