Cathartidae

species of bird

family of birds

large bird found in Central and South America

species of bird

Condor is the common name for two genera of New World vultures, each with one extant species. The name derives from the Quechua kuntur. They are the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere.

Breagyps is an extinct genus of New World vulture in the family Cathartidae.

Vultur is a genus of New World vulture that contains two species, an extant species, the Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) and the fossil species Vultur messii from the early Pliocene of Argentina.

Sarcoramphus is a genus of New World vulture that contains a single extant species, the king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa).

Coragyps is a genus of New World vulture that contains the black vulture (Coragyps atratus) and two extinct relatives.

Wingegyps is an extinct genus of small condor from the Late Pleistocene of South America. The type species W. cartellei was described from cave deposits in the states of Bahia and Minas Gerais, Brazil, with more material having been found in the Mene de Inciarte tar seeps of Venezuela. The material was first discovered in the mid 19th century and eventually described by Danish ornithologist Oluf Winge, for whom it was later named, without initially attributing a new scientific name. While it is regarded as the smallest known New World Vulture, the anatomy of the cranium suggests that it was ac