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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. Red-headed vulture - Wikipedia

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    The red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus), also known as the Asian king vulture, Indian black vulture or Pondicherry vulture, [2] is an Old World vulture mainly found in the Indian subcontinent, with small disjunct populations in some parts of Southeast Asia.

  4. List of birds of Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Like the Old World vultures, they are scavengers. Unlike Old World vultures, which find carcasses by sight, New World vultures have a good sense of smell with which they locate carcasses. The turkey vulture has a red head. The black vulture has a gray head. Black vulture, Coragyps atratus; Turkey vulture, Cathartes aura

  5. Cathartes - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. List of Accipitriformes species - Wikipedia

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    Grey-headed fish eagle: Accipitridae: Icthyophaga ichthyaetus (Horsfield, 1821) 203 Grasshopper buzzard: Accipitridae: Butastur rufipennis (Sundevall, 1850) 204 White-eyed buzzard: Accipitridae: Butastur teesa (Franklin, 1831) 205 Rufous-winged buzzard: Accipitridae: Butastur liventer (Temminck, 1827) 206 Grey-faced buzzard: Accipitridae ...

  7. Aegypiinae - Wikipedia

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    Red-headed vulture Sarcogyps calvus: The Indian Subcontinent, with small disjunct populations in Southeast Asia: Trigonoceps Lesson, 1842: White-headed vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis: Sub-Saharan Africa. Extinct populations have occurred in Indonesia. [7] Torgos Kaup, 1828: Lappet-faced vulture Torgos tracheliotos

  8. Buzzard - Wikipedia

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    In parts of the US, the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) is colloquially called a "buzzard". Index of animals with the same common name This page is an index of articles on animal species (or higher taxonomic groups) with the same common name ( vernacular name).

  9. Andean condor - Wikipedia

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    Andean condor in Peru There is a dark red caruncle (or comb) on the top of the head of the adult male. The Andean condor was described by Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae and retains its original binomial name of Vultur gryphus . [ 3 ]