Turkey Vulture

• Scientific Name: Cathartes Aura
• Common Name: Turkey Vulture
• Diet: carrion
• Color: dark brown
• Size: 26 inches
• Active Period: Spring-Summer
• Habitat: widespread
• Field Identification: naked red head, finds food by smell while soaring, trailing half of wing silvery, white undertail
• Nest: scrape on ground
• Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
• Genus: Cathartes
• Family: Cathartidae (new world vultures)
• Order: Falconiformes
• Phylum: Chordata (hollow nerve cord)
• Subphylum: Vertebrata (backbone)
• Species: aura