New World Vultures
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes aura
The turkey vulture (Cathartes aura), also known in some North American regions as the turkey buzzard (or just buzzard), and in some areas of the Caribbean as the John crow or carrion crow, is the most widespread of the New World vultures. One of three species in the genus Cathartes of the family Cathartidae, the turkey vulture ranges from southern Canada to the southernmost tip of South America. It inhabits a variety of open and semi-open...
- Family
- New World Vultures
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Weight
- 1.5 kg
- Habitat
- Human Modified
- Diet
- Vertebrates, fish and carrion
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 32
Recorded in United States, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, Chile, Brazil, Belize, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Honduras, Cuba, Guatemala, El Salvador, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Uruguay, Bolivia, Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominican Rep., Falkland Is., Paraguay, Guyana, Suriname, Haiti, GF, KY.
Where to see it: West Point Island (Falkland Islands / Malvinas); Casa Jardín Nativo, Abreu, Cabrera (Dominican Republic); Paraíso Caño Hondo (Dominican Republic); Gypsy Cove (Falkland Islands / Malvinas); Carcass Island (Falkland Islands / Malvinas).
Photo: Channel City Camera Club from Santa Barbara, US, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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