Bird families · Accipitriformes

New World Vultures

Cathartidae · 7 species

New World Vultures (Cathartidae) is a family of 7 bird species in the order Accipitriformes. They live mostly in grassland, human modified, forest habitats. The smallest is the Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture and the largest the Andean Condor.

• Andean Condor Vultur gryphus
• Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
• California Condor Gymnogyps californianus
• Greater Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes melambrotus
• King Vulture Sarcoramphus papa
• Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes burrovianus
• Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura