The black vulture, also known as the American black vulture, Mexican vulture, zopilote, urubu, or gallinazo, is a bird in the New World vulture family whose range extends from the northeastern United
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Black vulture pair feeding on a mule deer head. Plate 106 from The Birds of America by J. J. Audubon.
Coragyps is a genus of New World vulture that contains the black vulture and two extinct relatives.
Black vulture
…Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Accipitriformes Family: Cathartidae Genus: Coragyps Species: C. atratus Binomial name Coragyps atratus (Bechstein, 1793) Subspecies C. a. atratus Bechstein, 1793 North American black vulture C. a. foetens…