Genus
Cathartes (Turkey and yellow-headed vultures)
Cathartes aura. Photo: (c) Maggie.Smith, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
The genus Cathartes includes medium-sized to large carrion-feeding birds in the New World vulture (Cathartidae) family. The three species currently classified in this genus occur widely in the Americas.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Class: Aves (Birds)
- Order: Cathartiformes (New world vultures)
- Family: Cathartidae (New world vultures)
- Genus: Cathartes (Turkey and yellow-headed vultures)
- Family: Cathartidae (New world vultures)
- Order: Cathartiformes (New world vultures)
- Class: Aves (Birds)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
