Meaning | large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures. |
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Synonym | New World vulture |
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Member of | Cathartidae, family Cathartidae | condors |
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Narrower | black vulture, carrion crow, Coragyps atratus | American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard |
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buzzard, turkey buzzard, turkey vulture, Cathartes aura | A New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States |
condor | The largest flying birds in the western hemisphere |
king vulture, Sarcorhamphus papa | large black-and-white vulture of South America and Central America |
Broader | vulture | Any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws / claws and feeding chiefly on carrion |
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Spanish | catártido |
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Catalan | catàrtid |
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