English

A Eurasian black vulture

Noun

black vulture ‎(plural black vultures)

1. An American vulture species, Coragyps atratus, with black plumage.
   • 2007, Amadeo M. Rea, Wings in the Desert: A Folk Ornithology of the Northern Pimans, University of Arizona Press, ISBN 9780816524594, page 101:

     In many Latin American towns, the Black Vulture is urbicolous, throwing in its lot with humans, taking advantage of slaughterhouses, garbage dumps, and fishing docks.

2. A north African and Eurasian vulture species, Aegypius monachus.

Synonyms

• (Coragyps atratus): American black vulture, black buzzard
• (Aegypius monachus): Eurasian black vulture, monk vulture, cinereous vulture

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