New World vulture
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| New World vultures | |
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| American Black Vultures on a cow carcass | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Ciconiiformes |
| Family: | Cathartidae Lafresnaye, 1839 |
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The New World vulture are family Cathartidae. They have seven species in five genera, all but one of which are monotypic. It includes five vultures and two condors found in warm and temperate areas of the Americas.
Species [change]
- Genus Coragyps
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus in South America and north to US
- Genus Cathartes
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura throughout the Americas to southern Canada
- Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes burrovianus in South America and north to Mexico
- Greater Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes melambrotus in the Amazon Basin of tropical South America
- Genus Gymnogyps
- California Condor Gymnogyps californianus in California. Formerly widespread in the mountains of western North America.[1]
- Genus Vultur
- Andean Condor Vultur gryphus in the Andes[2]
- Genus Sarcoramphus
- King Vulture Sarcoramphus papa from Southern Mexico to northern Argentina
