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• Think it’s a black vulture Fr.: urubu noir, not a turkey vulture. There was a Vulture | clusterflock
• Black vultures choose less precarious rocky perches on which to nest but join the lammergeiers on the thermals in their quest for food.
• A black vulture rose up out of the depths on widespread pinions and floated past them almost within arm's length, turning its gruesome naked head of pink lappeted skin to stare at them with inscrutable black eyes before sailing away. The Seventh Scroll
• We deal with everything from the smallest white-eye to a black vulture, from hedgehogs to jackals.
• The bird life is exquisite, and we saw saddle-billed storks, black vultures, ground hornbills and a number of eagles, among others.
• But you couldn't walk past a black vulture, particularly since a black vulture is a rarity. Lance Mannion:
• There are also Siberian ibex Capra ibex sibirica, and musk deer Moschus moschiferus (VU), Pallas's cat (manul) Otocolobus manul, Mongolian (bobak) marmot Marmota sibirica, Altai snow-cock Tetraogallus altaiacus, bearded and black vultures Gypaetus barbatus and Aegypius monarchus. Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia
• The black vulture (Coragyps atratus) is a shorter, stockier bird (without any red on its head) that is nevertheless heavier than the turkey vulture and dominant to it when competing for a carcass. Did you know? Mexico's vultures have very different eating habits.
• Aves: King Vulture (_S. papa_), Black Vulture (_Catharista urubu_). Animal Figures in the Maya Codices
• Raptors amongst the stabilised sands include 15 breeding pairs (about a tenth of the world's population) of the Spanish imperial eagle Aquila heliaca adalberti (VU), black vulture Aegypius monachus, short-toed eagle Circaetus gallicus, booted eagle Hieraaetus pennatus, buzzard Buteo buteo, black kite Milvus migrans, black-shouldered kite Elanus caeruleus, red kite M. milvus, and hobby Falco subbuteo. Doñana National Park, Spain