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Cathartes aura, buzzard, turkey buzzard, turkey vulture
a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States
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condor
the largest flying birds in the western hemisphere
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Coragyps atratus, black vulture, carrion crow
American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard
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Sarcorhamphus papa, king vulture
large black-and-white vulture of South America and Central America; have colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on head and neck
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Andean condor, Vultur gryphus
large vulture of the high Andes having black plumage and white neck ruff
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California condor, Gymnogyps californianus
North American condor; chiefly dull black; almost extinct