new world vulture
Noun
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Large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures (synset 101621563)
is a type of: vulture - any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrionsubtypes:
- 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 vulturessame as: cathartid
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