Black-vulture Synonyms

American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. carrion-crow
  2. coragyps-atratus
Of southern Eurasia and northern Africa
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. aegypius-monachus

Black-vulture Sentence Examples

  • In the eastern portion of the Coastal Plain Region are the cotton rat, rice-field rat, marsh rabbit, big-eared bat, brown pelican, swallow-tailed kite, black vulture and some rattlesnakes and cotton-mouth moccasin snakes, all of which are common farther south; and there are some turtles and terrapins, and many geese, swans, ducks, and other water-fowl.

  • The griffon and the black vulture are also frequently seen.

  • The carrion crow, or black vulture (Catharista atrata), is also common to every part of the country, and is the general scavenger.