"new world vulture" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

is a type of: vulture - any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion
subtypes:
- buzzard, cathartes aura, turkey buzzard, turkey vulture - a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States
- condor - the largest flying birds in the western hemisphere
- black vulture, carrion crow, coragyps atratus - American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard
- king vulture, sarcorhamphus papa - large black-and-white vulture of South America and Central America; have colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on head and neck
belongs to: cathartidae, family cathartidae - condors; turkey buzzards; king vultures

same as: cathartid