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New World Vultures and Condors
 
 
 
Order:	Cathartiformes
Family:	Cathartidae
 
Species on page - 6 out of 7 species in 5 out of 5 genera depicted
 
Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)
Watchful
Flying
Turkey vulture	
Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)
Family: Cathartidae (New World vultures)
	
Mount Diablo
April 1, 2022 with Robb Most
Canon 7D Mark II
 
      
Turkey vulture	
Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)
Family: Cathartidae (New World vultures)
	
Mount Diablo
April 1, 2022 with Robb Most
Canon 7D Mark II
 
      
	
Trying to carry-on
 
Playing the spread
 
Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)
January 4, 2013
 
 
Vulture
Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)
Family: Cathartidae (New World vultures)
Felt Lake 2020
Photographing Nature reunion
January 19, 2020
Canon 7dmark2
When vultures do math
Vulture and booby
Vulture bathing
Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)
Family: Cathartidae (New World vultures)
Everglades
 
Florida
April 1, 2018
Canon 7Dmark2
Black vulture (Coragyps atratus)
Florida
Vulturous head
Vulture and turtle
Death and harbinger - Florida style
Flamingo, Everglades National Park
Florida
March 25, 2009
Harbinger's head
Flamingo, Everglades National Park
March 25, 2009
Death and harbinger - Brazil style
 
Caiman and vulture
Brazil
August, 2014
 
  
 
Vulture perched
Buzzards
 
 
 
 
 
Walled
 
 
 
 
 
California condor (Gymnogyps californianus)
California condor
 
 
      
20
 
 
      
Tender moment
 
 
      
40 and 27
 
 
      
King vulture (Sarcoramphus papa)
King vulture (Sarcoramphus papa)
 
Cuiabá zoo
Brazil
August 29, 2014
Andean condor (Vultur gryphus)
Andean condor
     
   
 
  
Andean condor
     
   
 
  
Lesser yellow-headed vulture (Cathartes burrovianus)
  
 
 
 
      
  
 
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Created: December 14, 2012
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