Turkey Vulture

Cathartes aura - Urubu à tête rouge

Systematics

Order
:
Accipitriformes
Family
:
Cathartidés
Genus
:
Cathartes
Species
:
aura

Descriptor

Linnaeus, 1758

Biometrics

Size
: 81 cm
Wingspan
: 160 à 182 cm.
Weight
: 1500 à 2000 g

Longevity

25 years

Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) is a species of bird in the Cathartidae family.

Subspecific information 6 subspecies

Cathartes aura aura (sw USA. s California to s Texas. to n Costa Rica, Greater Antilles)
Cathartes aura meridionalis (w North America)
Cathartes aura septentrionalis (e North America)
Cathartes aura ruficollis (s Costa Rica and Panama to n Argentina and e Brazil)
Cathartes aura jota (Andes from Colombia to s Argentina)
Cathartes aura falklandicus (Pacific coast from Ecuador to s Chile, Falkland Is.)

Foreign names

Urubu à tête rouge,
Aura gallipavo,
urubu-de-cabeça-vermelha,
Truthahngeier,
pulykakeselyű,
Roodkopgier,
Avvoltoio tacchino,
kalkongam,
Kalkunkondor,
kondor morkovitý,
kondor krocanovitý,
Kalkungrib,
kalkkunakondori,
zopilot cap-roig,
sępnik różowogłowy,
tītaru grifs,
Гриф-индейка,
ヒメコンドル,
红头美洲鹫,
紅頭美洲鷲,

Voice song and cries

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Habitat

Forest : Temperate, Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland, Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane ; Shrubland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry ; Grassland : Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded ; Desert : Hot ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Pastureland, Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest