lesser yellow-headed vulture, savannah vulture (Cathartes burrovianus) Description
Transpantaneira, Poconé, Mato Grosso, BRAZIL
Date 29 June 2016, 16:04
Source Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture (Cathartes burrovianus)
Author Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE https://www.flickr.com/people/65695019@N07
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lesser_Yellow-headed_Vulture_(Cathartes_burrovianus)_(28695241483).jpg
The lesser yellow-headed vulture (Cathartes burrovianus) also known as the savannah vulture, is a species of bird in the New World vulture family Cathartidae. It was considered to be the same species as the greater yellow-headed vulture until they were split in 1964. It is found in Mexico, Central America, and South America in seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.
Order: Cathartiformes
Family: Cathartidae
Genus: Cathartes
Species: Cathartes burrovianus Cassin, 1845
