Greater Yellow-headed Vulture
Cathartes melambrotusWetmore, A, 1964
English (US) Greater Yellow-headed Vulture
The Greater Yellow-headed Vulture (Cathartes melambrotus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Cathartidae (New World Vultures) in the order Cathartiformes.
Range: the Guianas and southern Venezuela to northern Bolivia and northern BrazilRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Cathartes melambrotus
- Order
- Cathartiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Greater Yellow-headed Vulture
- Described by
- Wetmore, A, 1964
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Wetmore, A, 1964
- Type locality
- Kartabo, Guyana.
- Original description
- Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 146 no.6 p.15
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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