Black Vulture
(Coragyps atratus)Species Fact Sheet
IUCN Red List Status | Least Concern | Source: IUCN 2024 |
Laying and Chick-Rearing Periods | Incubation: 38-39 days; Brooding: 1-2 weeks | Source: Kavouriaris et al 2023 |
Recent News
24 February 2025: "San Antonio Zoo closes three exhibits after wild vulture tests 'non-negative' for bird flu" San Antonio Current.
19 February 2025: "Have you seen Buzz? Vulture on the loose in metro Atlanta" Fox 5 Atlanta.
14 February 2025: "Deaths of vultures from avian flu in rural Maryland" DanRodricks.com
12 February 2025: "Bird flu kills 22 Texas vultures, spurring warning about virus" Dallas Morning News.
18 January 2025: "Shocking: A flock of vultures basks in the sun on a golf course in Miami" CiberCuba.
16 January 2025: "Vulture Infestation in Placida Neighborhood" WINK News.
16 January 2025: "Bird is the word: Fauquier High School, town taking steps to disperse vultures" Fauquier Now.
15 January 2025: "Researchers Study Competitive Behaviors Between Black Vultures, Turkey Vultures" Purdue University.
14 January 2025: "Our Favorite Fascinating Bird Behaviors From the 2024 Audubon Photo Awards" Aududon.
6 December 2024: "Incredible moment vulture crashes into plane cockpit, forcing pilot to perform emergency landing with the dead bird obscuring his view" The Daily Mail.
12 November 2023: “Why Vultures Might Just Be the Smartest Birds Above the Block” The New York Times.
Bibliography
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Bromser-Kloeden 2024. "Vultural Differences: A Multispecies Ethnography of Black Vulture Predation on Cattle in Virginia" George Mason University PhD Thesis: Summer 2024. https://www.proquest.com...
Campbell 2014. “The impact of urbanization and agricultural development on vultures in El Salvador” Vulture News 66: July 2014. https://www.ajol.info...
Casto 1988. “Perceptions of Vultures by the Indians and Early Texans” Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society 21. https://sora.unm.edu...
Darwin 1841. “The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle, Part III: Birds” London: Smith Elder and Co. https://darwin-online.org.uk...
Ericson et al 2022. “A 14,000-year-old genome sheds light on the evolution and extinction of a Pleistocene vulture” Communications Biology 5: 23 August 2022. https://www.nature.com...
Gomez et al 2014. “Avian Pox in Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)” Vulture News 66: July 2014. https://www.ajol.info...
Hill et al 2023. “Urbanization influences spatiotemporal patterns of roost site selection by black vultures and turkey vultures” Urban Ecosystems 26: 14 April 2023. https://link.springer.com...
Johnson et al 2016. “Multi-locus phylogenetic inference among New World Vultures (Aves: Cathartidae)” Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 105: December 2016. https://www.sciencedirect.com...
Kavouriaris et al 2023. “Post-hatch Egg Laying by American Black Vultures (Coragyps atratus)” Journal of Raptor Research 57(4): December 2023. https://meridian.allenpress.com...