Black vulture

The black vulture (Coragyps atratus), also known as the American black vulture, is a bird in the New World vulture family.

Black vulture
Coragyps atratus brasiliensis in Panama
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Class:	Aves
Order:	Accipitriformes
Family:	Cathartidae
Genus:	Coragyps Saint-Hilaire, 1853
Binomial name
Coragyps atratus
Distribution map of the black vulture

Its range is from the southeastern United States to Central Chile and Uruguay in South America. It is a common and widespread species, but less so than the turkey vulture, which breeds well into Canada and south to Tierra del Fuego. Despite the similar name and appearance, this species is unrelated to the Eurasian black vulture.

Black Vulture Media

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  Black vulture pair feeding on a mule deer head. Plate 106 from The Birds of America by John James Audubon.

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  C. occidentalis fossil

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  Egg, Collection Museum Wiesbaden

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  Coragyps atratus; Allen's Fresh, Charles Co., MD

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  Adult and juvenile, Hueston Woods State Park, Ohio

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  Black Vulture -- Farallon, Panama

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  C. a. brasiliensis, Copan, Honduras

• A pair from Panama, in Soberania National Park