black vulture

English

A Eurasian black vulture

Noun

black vulture (plural black vultures)

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.
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 m
Finnish: mustakondori (fi)
French: vautour moine (fr) m
German: Rabengeier m
Hungarian: hollókeselyű (hu)
Italian: urubù dalla testa nera m

Navajo: jeeshóóʼ łizhinígíí
Spanish: buitre negro americano m, cuervo de cabeza negra (es) m (Uruguay), gallinazo 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 m (Venezuela), zope m (El Salvador, Guatemala), zopilote (es) (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua)
Swedish: korpgam c

Aegypius monachus — see Eurasian black vulture

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Translations to be checked

Korean: 독수리 (doksuri)

References

American Black Vulture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Coragyps atratus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Coragyps atratus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Eurasian Black Vulture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Aegypius monachus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Aegypius monachus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons