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Turkey Vulture

Cathartes aura

Notes 5

Large, all-dark birds sometimes soaring up in the sky. Immature birds have dark heads and are a little browner. The lighter black part of their wings can sometimes weather to almost white and them look a bit like condors, but the white in California Condors' wings is in the middle and doesn't extend to the bottom edge: http://birds.audubon.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/bird-full/species_images/California_Condor_v15-1-015_l.jpg

Sources and Credits

  1. (c) David Baron, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/14869313@N00/3070052982
  2. (c) Mike Baird, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://www.flickr.com/photos/72825507@N00/2351478580
  3. (c) Mike Baird, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/2328444918/
  4. (c) TJ Gehling, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/tjgehling/8069251977/
  5. (c) sea-kangaroo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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Color black, grey, red
Status native
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