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Turkey vultures coming in to the same roost they use for the season. All Cathartes species have featherless heads with brightly colored skin, yellow to orange in the yellow-headed vultures, bright red in the turkey vulture. All three species share a well-developed sense of smell, which is rare in birds, that enables them to locate carrion under ...
While soaring, the turkey vulture holds its wings in a shallow V-shape and often tips from side to side, frequently causing the gray flight feathers to appear silvery as they catch the light. The flight of the turkey vulture is an example of static soaring flight, in which it flaps its wings very infrequently, and takes advantage of rising ...
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Like the Old World vultures, they are scavengers. However, unlike Old World vultures, which find carcasses by sight, New World vultures have a good sense of smell with which they locate carrion. King vulture, Sarcoramphus papa; Black vulture, Coragyps atratus; Turkey vulture, Cathartes aura; Lesser yellow-headed vulture, Cathartes burrovianus
Turkey vulture, [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.
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 ...
Turkey vulture. Order: Cathartiformes Family: Cathartidae The New World vultures are not closely related to Old World vultures, but superficially resemble them because of convergent evolution. Like the Old World vultures, they are scavengers.