black vulture
English
A Eurasian black vulture
Noun
black vulture (plural black vultures)
- 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, 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.
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- 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
Translations
Coragyps atratus
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Aegypius monachus — see Eurasian black vulture
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