#coragyps atratus

[fyanimaldiversity]

Leucistic black vulture (Coragyps atratus)

@ wendybirdsbyrv

[birdblues]

Black Vulture

[ophiophxgus]

Black vulture (Coragyps atratus)

11/09/23, Central Florida.

[kiss-kiss-bird-in-love]

Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)

© Dodge Rock

[occasionallybirds]

Black Vultures (Coragyps atratus)

June 24, 2022

Conowingo Dam, Darlington, Maryland 

[autisticplants]

A group of Black Vultures (Coragyps atratus) tear at a dead Striped Skunk (Mephitis mephitis).

[fenrislorsrai]

Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by Jeffrey Jang Via Flickr: Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)

[everydayesterday]

Black Vultures (Coragyps atratus). There was a deer carcass nearby, drawing about 40 vultures to the same spot. It smelled awful, but they seemed to... get a kick out of it. The circle of life.

photo by me. 2023-06-13 Nashville, TN (Shelby Bottoms)

[vulture-appreciation]

Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)

© Dodge Rock

[rjalker]

Black vultures sleeping on the cellphone tower :)

[ID: A cropped photo showing a cellphone tower made of white metal, with 20 black vultures perched on it, many of them sleeping with their heads resting on their wings. The vultures have black feathers and featherless dark grey faces, and are numbered 1-20, perched on various places on the tower. The sky is dark blue behind them, with light coming from the setting sun on the forward right side of the picture. End ID.]

the rest of the flock was sleeping in the pine trees nearby.

[squawkoverflow]

A new variant has been added!

Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) © John James Audubon

It hatches from black, broad, distinct, large, and silvery eggs.

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[birdblues]

Alibino Black Vulture

[eye-see-a-bird]

Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)

© Gilles Archambault

[jayie-the-hufflepuff]

This is one I've been wanting to draw for a while, but for you guys it'll probably require some context. So, context!

Last summer, a pair of American Black Vultures started hanging out in our backyard. I wasn't entirely sure why, until I did some Googling, read that vultures like to nest in abandoned buildings, took a look at the very abandoned-looking decrepit shed in our yard that was due to get knocked down and replaced, and put two and two together. We had to delay the shed's demolition once we found they had laid their eggs in the shed, so that project was pushed back a bit, but for me it was seriously worth it because the shed sits just a foot or two away from the house with a window that gives me a clear and up-close view of the shed, which gave me the awesome privilege of watching a vulture grow up from an egg, to a lil' baby ball of fluff, to an adult-sized muppet of a birb with all its baby fluffy still on it, to a full flying adult with just the tiniest bit of down still on its neck.

Poisonous plant names seemed most fitting to me for vultures, so I called the parents Hemlock and Poppy (vultures aren't sexually dimorphic so I couldn't tell them apart, but whatever), and I named the baby Oleander, Ollie for short. Like I said, vultures aren't sexually dimorphic, so I couldn't tell if Ollie was a male or female, but I just took to calling him he and stuck with it.  I saw Ollie as an egg, I saw him as a tiny little ball of white fluff toddling around the inside of the shed, I saw him as the previously mentioned awkward muppet jumping around trying to figure out how to use those big wings of his... I even saw his first flight (or at least one of his first, I wasn't watching him 24/7 so I could have missed his first, but I was watching often enough to know that it was probably one of his first), he flew up from the ground to the roof of the shed. The last time I saw him, he looked almost exactly like his parents, with a full coat of sleek black feathers, a tiny ring of down coat still around his neck, a head that wasn't quite as wrinkly as his parents', and a black beak-tip unlike his parents' white beak-tip, but he was as strong a flyer as his parents and ready to set off into the big old world... but not alone, vultures stay with their parents for a further two months after fledging, so wherever they went after leaving my yard, they went together.

Anyway, I miss Ollie, but it was privilege to watch him grow, and I hope he's out there living his best vulture life. Vultures can live up to 30 years, so I can spend the next few decades thinking about him living his best life out there. But that summer's come and gone, and after looking back at the videos I took, we're coming up on Ollie's first birthday - I was checking pretty much daily for the eggs to hatch (the second one never hatched), so I'm fairly confident on May 30th being the date that Ollie hatched. So, as an early celebration of Ollie's first birthday, I wanted to draw the little feather duster himself. So here's my best attempt at drawing Ollie!

I used this photo I took of him as a reference, he was about two months old here and still well into his awkward muppet phase.  If you're curious to see some footage and photos of Ollie, check out this Twitter thread.

Now onto the actual drawing. XD I'm actually really proud of how it turned out. I know it's not perfect, but I think it looks pretty damn good regardless.  It was a lot of fun playing around with the different textures. The down doesn't look perfect, but I'm really happy with how the head and beak look.

[admiradoradeaves]

Urubu-preto / Por: Alline M.

[tenth-sentence]

If an animal dies on the plain the Gallinazo commences the feast, and then the two species of Polyborus pick the bones clean.

"Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, 1832-36" - Charles Darwin