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Coragyps is a
genus of New
World vulture that
contains the
black vulture (
Coragyps atratus) and two
extinct relatives. The
genus Coragyps was introduced...
- The
black vulture (
Coragyps atratus), also
known as the
American black vulture,
Mexican vulture, zopilote, urubu, or gallinazo, is a bird in the New World...
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Coragyps occidentalis, the
Pleistocene black vulture, is an
extinct species of New
World vulture that
lived throughout North and
South America during the...
- 1839. The New
World vultures comprise seven species in five genera,
being Coragyps, Cathartes, Gymnogyps, Sarcoramphus, and Vultur. Of these, only Cathartes...
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great heights, up to a mile away. The
seven species are:
Black vulture Coragyps atratus in
South America and
north to the US
Turkey vulture Cathartes aura...
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goshawks (Accipiter gentilis),
ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) and
black (
Coragyps atratus) and
turkey vultures (Cathartes aura).
Mammalian preys are generally...
- therefore, not
closely related to the much
smaller American black vulture (
Coragyps atratus)
despite the
similar name and colour. The
cinereous vulture measures...
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Cathartidae †Aizenogyps †Brasilogyps †Breagyps
Cathartes †Cathartidarum
Coragyps †Diatro****is †Dryornis †Geronogyps
Gymnogyps †Hadrogyps †****ur †Pampagyps...
- burrovi****)
Greater yellow-headed
vulture (Cathartes melambrotus)
Coragyps Black vulture (
Coragyps atratus)
Sarcoramphus King
vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) Gymnogyps...
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needing to rely on
other scavengers to
guide them to it.
Black vultures (
Coragyps atratus) and
several mammalian carnivorous scavengers such as
foxes may...
