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                                                                        Cathartiformes
 

 CATHARTIDAE

    Condors and Jacks. Family exclusive americas. They are carrion birds, great. They plan at high altitudes. The beak has apical hook. In general are black, with their heads bare and colored. The wings are long and wide. The robust legs, without claws.

   They build the nest on rocks, trees or even on the floor. Place 1 to 2 egg whites.

Recent studies based on genetic comparison, places the family within the order Ciconiiformes, storks and herons along. Although many recently published bird guides continue to include in the order Falconiformes along with eagles, hawks, owls, etc. The Classification Committee American Ornithologists defined to create a new order for the New World vultures

ANDEAN CONDOR: Vultur gryphus       

     It inhabits the Andes Mountains and the Sierras Pampeanas of Córdoba and San Luis`.

The photographs were taken at the Quebrada La Mermela, Córdoba province.

It nests in holes in cliffs. Place a single egg white

Sequence showing the transition between both partners

                   
                     Incubating Male            Changing Position               Leaving Nest                     Egg Nest

                   
                           Returning and etering the nest                          Incubating Male                 Flying Male

                   
                        Flying Male                      Flying Male                  Observing Male            Approaching Female

                       
                                             Female arriving and etering de nest                                      Incubating Female

 Care and feeding the chick. (C°Blanco 2011)  

         Photographs taken in Refugio Vida Silvestre Cerro Blanco, Córdoba province.

    TURKEY VULTURE: Cathartes aura

Blackish with pale legs. Head and neck reddish devoid of feathers. Both sexes are the same color, the female slightly larger. It has a height between 70 and 80 cm.with a wingspan of 1.75 meters on average. In flight is distinguished by the whitishventral shirts in sharp contrast to the black underwing coverts of.
It feeds on carrion. Frequents open habitats from high mountains to seashores.
In our country there are three races.

  JOTE CABEZA COLORADA: Cathartes aura ruficollis 

Inhabiting the provinces of northeastern Argentina (Misiones, Corrientes, Formosa, Chaco, Entre Rios and Santa Fe).
   Its most distinctive features is the black and white spots more intense in the head and neck

     
         

            
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 JOTE CABEZA COLORADA: Cathartes aura jota

Slightly larger in size and coloration brown with slight flanges
    wing coverts and secondary schools. No white spots on the head.
    Jujuy is distributed from the central western Argentina to Tierra del Fuego.

                 
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     BLACK VULTURE: Coragyps atratus
 

        Gregarious. Black with head bare, blackish,



  

            
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          LESSER YELLOW-HEADED VULTURE: Cathartes burrovianus

         It inhabits the NE Country. Head yellow, red and green

         

           
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        KING VULTURE: Sarcoramphus papa

      
   It inhabits forests in northern Argentina

               
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