greater yellow-headed vulture, forest vulture (Cathartes melambrotus) Description
Deutsch: Großer Gelbkopfgeier (Cathartes melambrotus)
Date 30 September 2013, 16:43:13
Author Dirk Meyer
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greater_yellow-headed_Vulture_(Cathartes_melambrotus).JPG
The greater yellow-headed vulture (Cathartes melambrotus), also known as the forest vulture, is a species of bird in the New World vulture family Cathartidae. It was considered to be the same species as the lesser yellow-headed vulture until they were split in 1964. It is found in South America in tropical moist lowland forests. The greater yellow-headed vulture feeds on carrion and locates carcasses by sight and by smell, an ability which is rare in birds.
Order: Cathartiformes
Family: Cathartidae
Genus: Cathartes
Species: Cathartes melambrotus Wetmore, 1964
