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[HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
10/05/2024 09:58:10 AM
Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
LC
Greater Yellow-headed Vulture*
Id (Atlas):
Cathartes melambrotus
Description (10 )
Greater Yellow-headed Vulture
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Family
Cathartidae (New World Vultures)
Size
74 - 81 cm
First Described (Guide )
Wetmore, 1964
Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 900 m.
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua (B), Panama (B), Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.
Poorly known. Amazonia, including southern Venezuela and the Guianas. Knowledge of distribution is likely to be conservative.
 
Population
Estimated population is 100,000 (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files
Listen to XC540005
Greater Yellow-headed Vulture (Cathartes melambrotus ) [XC540005 ]
by id from Porto Alegre camp -- Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Brazil (call)
Subspecies
Very similar in appearance, ecology and behaviour to Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura ) and Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture (Cathartes burrovianus ). Has been regarded as an allospecies of Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture (Cathartes burrovianus ), but the two have widely sympatric ranges.
No subspecies.
References
See References .
Files:
BirdLife International
For more information about the Greater Yellow-headed Vulture see... BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
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