Cathartes: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Cathartiformes
- Family
- Cathartidae
- Genus
- Cathartes
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Cathartes
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cathartes
The genus Cathartes includes medium-sized to large carrion-feeding birds in the New World vulture (Cathartidae) family. The three extant species currently classified in this genus occur widely in the Americas. There is one extinct species known from the Quaternary of Cuba.
Cathartes is the Greek word καθαρτής, for "purifier," referring to these vultures' role as "cleansers" that "tidy up" decomposing corpses in nature.
...Cathartes in languages:
- Bokmål
- Kalkunkondorer
- Chinese
- 美洲鷲屬
- English
- Turkey and Yellow-headed Vultures
- Hebrew
- קתרטס
- Japanese
- ヒメコンドル属
- Russian
- Грифы-индейки
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