The gregarious dark-colored vulture roosts, nourishes, and soars in categories, often together with chicken birds. A carrion bird feeder that will intimidate a chicken vulture away from a carcass, it sometimes eliminates smaller live food. Polytypic (3 ssp.; nominate in South America). Length 25" (64 cm); wingspan 57" (145 cm).
Identification Adult: shiny dark-colored down can show iridescence in the right light. White inner primaries often hard to see on the collapsed side. White feet comparison with black grey go color. Epidermis of go wrinkled; expenses black at platform and going cream color or yellow. Juvenile: dark-colored human body and side down usually duller, less iridescent. Epidermis of go sleek, dark dark-colored than an mature. Flight: obvious white or silvery areas at platform of primaries that comparison with dark-colored wings, human body, and longest tail. White feet increase almost to tip of relatively short longest tail. Soars and slides with wings used in a minor dihedral. If seen at a distance, the quick, short, uneven wingbeats spread with slides are usually enough for an recognition.
Similar Types The chicken vulture shows silvery inner secondaries and a obvious dihedral while in trip, along with a further, more substance wingbeat.
Voice Hisses when confronted.
Status and Submission Plentiful in the South, broadening up the Eastern Seacoast into lower New Britain. Less common in lower Great Flatlands, local in lower Az. Breeding: nests in a protected area on the ground, such as empty structures. Migration: inactive, south collie breeders, may move with chicken birds to hotter winter property. Vagrant: recreational to Florida, south New Britain, and lower South the united states.
Population The species changes well to human existence, eating on roadkills and at trash places.
Identification Adult: shiny dark-colored down can show iridescence in the right light. White inner primaries often hard to see on the collapsed side. White feet comparison with black grey go color. Epidermis of go wrinkled; expenses black at platform and going cream color or yellow. Juvenile: dark-colored human body and side down usually duller, less iridescent. Epidermis of go sleek, dark dark-colored than an mature. Flight: obvious white or silvery areas at platform of primaries that comparison with dark-colored wings, human body, and longest tail. White feet increase almost to tip of relatively short longest tail. Soars and slides with wings used in a minor dihedral. If seen at a distance, the quick, short, uneven wingbeats spread with slides are usually enough for an recognition.
Similar Types The chicken vulture shows silvery inner secondaries and a obvious dihedral while in trip, along with a further, more substance wingbeat.
Voice Hisses when confronted.
Status and Submission Plentiful in the South, broadening up the Eastern Seacoast into lower New Britain. Less common in lower Great Flatlands, local in lower Az. Breeding: nests in a protected area on the ground, such as empty structures. Migration: inactive, south collie breeders, may move with chicken birds to hotter winter property. Vagrant: recreational to Florida, south New Britain, and lower South the united states.
Population The species changes well to human existence, eating on roadkills and at trash places.
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