New World Vultures
Greater Yellow-headed Vulture
Cathartes melambrotus
The Greater Yellow-headed Vulture (Cathartes melambrotus) is a 1.4 kg forest bird that eats mostly carrion. It stays put all year.
- Family
- New World Vultures
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Weight
- 1.4 kg
- Habitat
- Forest
- Diet
- Vertebrates, fish and carrion
- Migration
- Resident
- Countries recorded
- 9
