Length: 25 inches long, 57-inch wingspan Diet: A black vulture’s primary is carrion. It will also eat eggs, rotten fruit and small birds. Weight: 4 to 6 pounds Distinguishing characteristics: ...

Black vultures (Coragyps atratus) are large birds, about 23 to 27 inches tall with a wing spread up to 5 feet with white patches at the end of their wings. They’re mostly black with a black or ...

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The Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) is one of three species of new world vultures that inhabits the United States. This particular species is a common carrion feeding bird that resides in the ...

The black vulture (Coragyps atratus) is known as the zopilote, or more specifically the zopilote negro in Spanish. They are large birds that are completely black save for some white feathers on the ...

These include, turkey vultures (Cathartes aura), black vultures (Coragyps atratus) and the distant conservation success icons, California condors (Gymnogyps californianus).

The American black vulture (Coragyps atratus) are easy to spot with their dark, sooty plumage, bald black heads, and short tails. Also known as a carrion crow, ...

Regular meals of rotting flesh would poison most animals. But vultures seem to have adapted by producing unusually destructive gastric juices, and by hosting a gut flora that helps them to prosper ...