Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
LC
American Black Vulture*
Id (Atlas):
Coragyps atratus
Description (10 )
American Black Vulture
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Other Names (World)
American Black Vulture, Black Vulture
Family
Cathartidae (New World Vultures)
Size
56 - 74 cm
Wingspan: 133 - 160 cm
First Described (Guide )
(Bechstein, 1783)
Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay (B), USA (B), Venezuela.
Vagrant to Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico (B), St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines.
Population
Estimated population is 20,000,000 (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (15)... )
Listen to XC743758
Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus ) [XC743758 ]
by id from Rio Jo\u00e3o Mendes, Niter\u00f3i, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (wing beats)
Listen to XC327288
Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus ) [XC327288 ]
by Fernando Igor de Godoy from Oriximin\u00e1, Par\u00e1, Brazil (call)
Subspecies
Affinities unclear. May be better considered monotypic, as validity of subspecies doubtful.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
atratus (Bechstein, 1783) - Southern USA and northern Mexico.
brasiliensis (Bonaparte, 1850) - Central America and northern and eastern South America.
foetens (Lichtenstein, 1817) - Western South America.
References
See References .
Files:
BirdLife International
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