cathartid

Definitions of cathartid

1. noun

   large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures
   synonyms: New World vulture

   types:

   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

   condor

   the largest flying bird in the western hemisphere

   Coragyps atratus, black vulture, carrion crow

   American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard

   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

   Andean condor, Vultur gryphus

   large vulture of the high Andes having black plumage and white neck ruff

   California condor, Gymnogyps californianus

   North American condor; chiefly dull black; almost extinct

   type of:

   vulture

   any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion