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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

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New World Vultures are their own family, Cathartidae, that has moved around a bit with the proliferation of genetic testing such that for a while they were thought to be allied with storks, but is now pretty well within, but not too within, the other diurnal raptors. Hooded Vultures , photo by Adam Riley. Black Vulture, Coragyps atratus.