Vulture
Vultures are large birds of prey that usually feed on the carrion or (dead or dying animals and rocks). Vultures use their large wings to soar in the air for many miles without having to flap. Vultures are also called buzzards.
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Vultures from the Old World (Europe, Asia, and Africa) are not related to the vultures of the New World (North and South America). They look quite similar, though. Both have heads and necks with no feathers.
Old World vultures are related to eagles and hawks and use sight to find their food. New World vultures use their sense of smell to find their food. Vultures symbolize death in literature.
King vultures use rocks to open eggs, they pick up a rock with their beak and simply drop or throw the rock onto the egg and breaks it.
New World vultures is a name which is used for a number of species in the Americas. The best known of these are probably the Andean condor and the black vulture.
Vulture Media
American black vultures congregated at roadkill
Some members of both the Old and New World vultures have an unfeathered neck and head, shown as radiating heat in this thermographic image.
Griffon vultures scavenging a red deer carcass in Spain
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Vulture preparing to land in Kenya
African hooded vulture in Kruger National Park
A wake of white-backed vultures eating a wildebeest carcass in Maasai Mara
Flock of white-rumped vultures in India
Head of a vulture chick, Iran
The Aztec vulture vessel at the new Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Pottery Gallery
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References
- ↑ "Fossilworks:Aegypiinae". Fossilworks. Archived from the original on June 28, 2020. Retrieved September 4, 2018.