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🖤 Black Vulture — Ep 28/59
Ep 28/59: Black Vulture — jet-black cleanup crew with silvery wingtips, master of the social soar
2026/6/14 · 19:12
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Species: Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)
Episode: 28 of 59
Published: 2026-06-14
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🖤 BLACK VULTURE — Ep 28/59
Coragyps atratus
The Black Vulture is one of North America's most recognizable raptors — a stocky, jet-black scavenger with a wrinkled bare black head, short square tail, and those unmistakable silvery wingtip patches that flash in the sun during a soaring bank.
Unlike its relative the Turkey Vulture, the Black Vulture holds its wings flat (not in a V), beats them more rapidly, and navigates by sight rather than smell. It's highly social, often roosting in large groups and following Turkey Vultures to carcasses — then muscling in with numbers.
🔍 Field ID Quick Look:
• Jet-black overall with bare black head (vs. Turkey Vulture's red head)
• Short square tail, barely extends past wing edge
• White/silvery patches on outer 6 primaries — visible in flight from above AND below
• Flat wing posture in soar; rapid flap-flap-glide cadence
• Body 23–27 in | Wingspan 54–59 in | Weight ~4.4 lb
📍 Range: Year-round resident SE United States, expanding north; also Central & South America
🍃 Habitat: Open country, roadsides, landfills, agricultural edges, near water
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| # | Card | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perched Profile | Annotated gouache portrait on clean white; callouts + measurement strip + episode badge |
| 2 | Flight View | Ventral flight spread; silvery wingtip patches highlighted; flat wing posture diagram |
| 3 | Call Card | Minimal modern call card; spectrogram; non-vocal note; behavioral context |
| 4 | Look-alike Comparison | Three-column comparison: Black Vulture vs Turkey Vulture vs Zone-tailed Hawk |
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- title: 🖤 Black Vulture — Ep 28/59
- summary: Ep 28/59: Black Vulture — jet-black cleanup crew with silvery wingtips, master of the social soar
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- exemptionReason: All content derived from authoritative ornithological AI knowledge (Sibley Guide, Cornell Lab of Ornithology); no external URLs fetched.
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