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vulture
📅 Updated:2020-03-11
🕒 Created:2017-06-18
🆔 ID:16751
Description
Vultures are two groups of scavenging birds of prey referred to as the New World vultures and the Old World vultures. They are found on every continent except Australia and Antarctica.
They are well known for scavenging carcasses, having bald heads, and hunched bodies. Their bald heads and body language, as well as their tendencies to open their wings and stretch, are due to their methods of thermoregulation, utilizing these movements and particular body structures to retain or expel heat.
Species (WIP)
- new_world_vulture (Cathartidae)
- andean_condor (Vultur gryphus)
- black_vulture (Coragyps atratus) - Less ambiguously known as the American black vulture.
- Cathartes (genus)
- turkey_vulture (C. aura)
- yellow-headed_vulture
- greater_yellow-headed_vulture (C. melambrotus)
- lesser_yellow-headed_vulture (C. burrovianus)
- Gymnogyps (genus)
- california_condor (Gymnogyps californianus) - The largest North American land bird, and the only living member of the Gymnogyps genus.
- king_vulture (Sarcoramphus papa)
- old_world_vulture
- Aegypiinae (subfamily)
- cinereous_vulture (Aegypius monachus)
- Gyps (genus)
- cape_vulture (Gyps coprotheres)
- griffon_vulture (Gyps fulvus)
- himalayan_vulture (Gyps himalayensis)
- indian_vulture (Gyps indicus)
- rüppell's_vulture (Gyps rueppelli)
- slender-billed_vulture (Gyps tenuirostris)
- white-backed_vulture (Gyps africanus)
- white-rumped_vulture (Gyps bengalensis)
- hooded_vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus)
- nubian_vulture (Torgos tracheliotos)
- red-headed_vulture (Sarcogyps calvus)
- white-headed_vulture (Trigonoceps occipitalis)
- Gypaetinae (subfamily)
- bearded_vulture (Gypaetus barbatus)
- egyptian_vulture (Neophron percnopterus)
- palm-nut_vulture (Gypohierax angolensis)
- Aegypiinae (subfamily)
- andean condor
- bearded vulture
- black vulture
- california condor
- cape vulture
- cinereous vulture
- egyptian vulture
- greater yellow-headed vulture
- griffon vulture
- himalayan vulture
- hooded vulture
- indian vulture
- king vulture
- lesser yellow-headed vulture
- nubian vulture
- palm-nut vulture
- red-headed vulture
- rüppell's vulture
- slender-billed vulture
- turkey vulture
- white-backed vulture
- white-headed vulture
- white-rumped vulture
Fictional
OCs
Not to be confused with
- eagle
- hawk
- gryphon - while vulture gryphons are a thing, the griffon vulture is also the name of a species, and the species in itself is not inherently a gryphon.
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See also
- avian
- bird
- accipitriform
- vulture
- accipitriform
- bird
