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    The Black Vulture, also known as the American Black Vulture, is a New World vulture found from the southeastern United States through Central and South America. It inhabits open areas with some forest cover and feeds primarily on carrion, but will also eat eggs and newborn animals. The Black Vulture is a large bird with black plumage and a featherless gray-black head and neck. It finds food through sight or by following other vultures and lacks a vocal organ, making only grunts or hisses.

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    The Black Vulture, also known as the American Black Vulture, is a New World vulture found from the southeastern United States through Central and South America. It inhabits open areas with some forest cover and feeds primarily on carrion, but will also eat eggs and newborn animals. The Black Vulture is a large bird with black plumage and a featherless gray-black head and neck. It finds food through sight or by following other vultures and lacks a vocal organ, making only grunts or hisses.

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    The Black Vulture, also known as the American Black Vulture, is a New World vulture found from the southeastern United States through Central and South America. It inhabits open areas with some forest cover and feeds primarily on carrion, but will also eat eggs and newborn animals. The Black Vulture is a large bird with black plumage and a featherless gray-black head and neck. It finds food through sight or by following other vultures and lacks a vocal organ, making only grunts or hisses.

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    The Black Vulture, also known as the American Black Vulture, is a New World vulture found from the southeastern United States through Central and South America. It inhabits open areas with some forest cover and feeds primarily on carrion, but will also eat eggs and newborn animals. The Black Vulture is a large bird with black plumage and a featherless gray-black head and neck. It finds food through sight or by following other vultures and lacks a vocal organ, making only grunts or hisses.

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    Black Vulture

    Black Vulture

    The Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) also known as the American Black Vulture, is a bird in the New World vulture family
    whose range extends from the southeastern United States to Central Chile and Uruguay in South America. Although a common
    and widespread species, it has a somewhat more restricted distribution than its compatriot, the Turkey Vulture, which breeds well
    into Canada and south to Tierra del Fuego. Despite the similar name and appearance, this species is unrelated to the Eurasian
    Black Vulture. The latter species is an Old World vulture in the family Accipitridae (which includes eagles, hawks, kites and
    harriers), whereas the American species is a New World vulture. It is the only extant member of the genus Coragyps, which is in
    the family Cathartidae. It inhabits relatively open areas which provide scattered forests or shrublands. [2] With a wingspan of 1.5 m
    (4.9 ft), the Black Vulture is a large bird though relatively small for a vulture. It has black plumage, a featherless, grayish-black
    head and neck, and a short, hooked beak.

    The Black Vulture is a scavenger and feeds on carrion, but will also eat eggs or kill newborn animals. In areas populated by
    humans, it also feeds at garbage dumps. It finds its meals either by using its keen eyesight or by following other (New World)
    vultures, which possess a keen sense of smell. Lacking a syrinx—the vocal organ of birds—its only vocalizations are grunts or low
    hisses.[3] It lays its eggs in caves or hollow trees or on the bare ground, and generally raises two chicks each year, which it feeds by
    regurgitation. In the United States, the vulture receives legal protection under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918.[4] This
    vulture also appeared in Mayan codices.

    Distribution and habitat

    The Black Vulture has a Nearctic and Neotropic distribution.[32] Its range includes the southern United States, Mexico, Central
    America and most of South America. It is usually a permanent resident throughout its range, although birds at the extreme north of
    its range may migrate short distances, and others across their range may undergo local movements in unfavourable conditions. [33]
    In South America, its range stretches to central Chile and Argentina.[34] It also is found as a vagrant on the islands of the
    Caribbean.[1] It prefers open land interspersed with areas of woods or brush.[35] It is also found in moist lowland forests, shrublands
    and grasslands, wetlands and swamps, pastures, and heavily degraded former forests.[2] Preferring lowlands, it is rarely seen in
    mountainous areas. It is usually seen soaring or perched on fence posts or dead trees. [29]

    This bird with its somehow crow-like aspect gave foot to the naming of the Quebrada de los Cuervos (Crows Ravine) in Uruguay,
    where they dwell together with the Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture and the Turkey Vulture.

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