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  2. Turkey vulture - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Cathartiformes - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. List of Accipitriformes species - Wikipedia

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    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 yellow-headed vulture: Cathartidae: Cathartes melambrotus Wetmore, 1964: 7 Secretarybird: Sagittariidae: Sagittarius serpentarius ...

  5. New World vulture - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Cathartes - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. List of birds of the Bahamas - Wikipedia

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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. Black vulture, Coragyps atratus (A) Turkey vulture, Cathartes aura

  8. Accipitrimorphae - Wikipedia

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    The placement of the New World vultures has been unclear since the early 1990s. The reason for this is the controversial systematic history of the New World vultures as they were assumed to be more related to (or a subfamily of) Ciconiidae (the storks) after Sibley and Ahlquist work on their DNA-DNA hybridization studies conducted in the late ...

  9. List of birds of Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    The black-capped chickadee is the state bird of Massachusetts. This list of birds of Massachusetts includes species documented in the U.S. state of Massachusetts and accepted by the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee (MARC). As of July 2023, there are 516 species included in the official list. Of them, 194 are on the review list (see below), six have been introduced to North America, three ...