Family
New World Vultures
Cathartidae
7 species with a page on Motmot.
Order: Cathartiformes
Cathartidae, commonly known as New World vultures and condors, are a family of birds of prey consisting of seven extant species in five genera. It includes five extant vultures and two extant condors found in the Americas. They are known as "New World" vultures to distinguish them from Old World vultures, with which the Cathartidae does not form a single clade despite the two being similar in appearance and behavior as a result of convergent evolution.
Species in this family
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes burrovianus
- Greater Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes melambrotus
- American Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- California Condor Gymnogyps californianus
- King Vulture Sarcoramphus papa
- Andean Condor Vultur gryphus