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turkey vulture, turkey buzzard (Cathartes aura)
Subject: turkey vulture, turkey buzzard (Cathartes aura)
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turkey vulture, turkey buzzard (Cathartes aura)


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Birds that hunt and are hunted : life histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water-fowls / by Neltje Blanchan [pseud.] with introduction by G. O. Shields (Coquina) and forty-eight colored plates.
Date 1902
Source http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/6301742143
Author Neltje Blanchan
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Birds_that_hunt_and_are_hunted_(6301742143).jpg

The turkey vulture (Cathartes aura), also known in some North American regions as the turkey buzzard (or just buzzard), and in some areas of the Caribbean as the John crow or carrion crow, is the most widespread of the New World vultures.

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Scientific Name: Cathartes aura (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common Names: Turkey Vulture, Turkey Buzzard, Buzzard
French: Urubu à tête rouge German: Truthahngeier Spanish: Aura gallipavo, Zopilote aura
Taxonomy: Vultur aura Linnaeus, 1758, Veracruz, Mexico.

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