black vulture

English

American black vulture

Eurasian black vulture

Noun

black vulture (plural black vultures)

1. An American vulture species, Coragyps atratus, with black plumage.
   • 2007, Amadeo M. Rea, Wings in the Desert: A Folk Ornithology of the Northern Pimans, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 101:

     In many Latin American towns, the Black Vulture is urbicolous, throwing in its lot with humans, taking advantage of slaughterhouses, garbage dumps, and fishing docks.

2. A north African and Eurasian vulture species, Aegypius monachus.

Synonyms

• (Coragyps atratus): American black vulture, black buzzard
• (Aegypius monachus): Eurasian black vulture, monk vulture, cinereous vulture

Translations

Coragyps atratus

• Catalan: zopilot m, urubú m
• Danish: ravnegrib c
• Dutch: monniksgier (nl) m
• Finnish: mustakondori (fi)
• French: vautour moine (fr) m
• German: Rabengeier m
• Hungarian: hollókeselyű (hu)
• Italian: urubù dalla testa nera m
• Korean: 검은대머리수리 (geomeundaemeorisuri)
• Navajo: jeeshóóʼ łizhinígíí
• Portuguese: urubu-preto m, urubu-de-cabeça-preta m
• Spanish: buitre negro americano m, cuervo de cabeza negra (es) m (Uruguay), gallinazo (es) m (Colombia), gallinazo negro m (Panama), guaraguao (es) m (Northeastern Venezuela), jote (es) m (Bolivia), jote de cabeza negra m (Argentina, Chile), sucha f (Bolivia), zamuro (es) m (Venezuela), zope (es) m (El Salvador, Guatemala), zopilote (es) (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua)
• Swedish: korpgam (sv) c

Aegypius monachus — see Eurasian black vulture

References

• Black vulture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Coragyps atratus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Coragyps atratus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Cinereous vulture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Aegypius monachus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Aegypius monachus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons