turkey vulture, turkey buzzard (Cathartes aura)

Query: iconographia zoologica

Result: 919^th of 1524

Subject:	turkey vulture, turkey buzzard (Cathartes aura)
Poster:	Wiki Photos (---@---.---)

Resolution: 3973x2912 File Size: 5748330 Bytes Date: 2010:06:23 02:03:44 Upload Date: 2017:03:10 21:51:34

Artist Mark Catesby (1682–1749) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Catesby
Creator:Johann Michael Seligmann
Description
Catharista aura
Date 1700-1880
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Edwards I 12
Old Latin name Catharista aura
New Latin name Cathartes aura
Common name Nederlands: Kalkoengier
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catharista_aura_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ18100125.tif

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.

iconographia zoologica
919/1524

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