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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 ...
Example of a ballistic table for a given 7.62×51mm NATO load. Bullet drop and wind drift are shown both in mrad and MOA.. A ballistic table or ballistic chart, also known as the data of previous engagements (DOPE) chart, is a reference data chart used in long-range shooting to predict the trajectory of a projectile and compensate for physical effects of gravity and wind drift, in order to ...
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 ...
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Gymnogyps amplus was first described by L. H. Miller in 1911 from a broken tarsometatarsus. [1] [2] The species is the only condor species found in the La Brea Tar Pits' Pit 10, which fossils date to "a Holocene radiocarbon age of 9,000 years."
New World vultures such as the condor are thought to be the closest living relatives to Argentavis and other teratorns. Average weights are much lower in both the wandering albatross and Andean condor than in Argentavis , at approximately 8.5 kg (19 lb) and 11.3 kg (25 lb), respectively.
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 ...
Teratornithidae are related to New World vultures (Cathartidae, syn. Vulturidae). [1] So far, at least seven species in six genera have been identified: Teratornis. Teratornis merriami. [2] This is by far the best-known species. Over a hundred specimens have been found, mostly from La Brea Tar Pits. It stood about 75 centimetres (30 in) tall ...