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All New World vultures have long, broad wings and a stiff tail, suitable for soaring. [36] They are the best adapted to soaring of all land birds. [37] The feet are clawed but weak and not adapted to grasping. [38] The front toes are long with small webs at their bases. [39] No New World vulture possesses a syrinx, [40] the vocal organ of birds ...
Condor Temporal range: Late Pliocene – Holocene Andean condor soaring over southern Peru's Colca Canyon Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Accipitriformes Family: Cathartidae Genera Vultur Gymnogyps Condor is the common name for two species of New World vultures, each in a monotypic genus. The name derives from the Quechua kuntur ...
The California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is a New World vulture and the largest North American land bird. It became extinct in the wild in 1987 when all remaining wild individuals were captured, but has since been reintroduced to northern Arizona and southern Utah (including the Grand Canyon area and Zion National Park), the coastal mountains of California, and northern Baja California ...
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The South American Classification Committee has removed the New World vultures from Ciconiiformes and instead described them as incertae sedis, but notes that a move to Falconiformes or Cathartiformes is possible. [8] The Andean condor is the only accepted living species of its genus, Vultur. [12]
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