#1032 · 🐦 birds
Black Vulture
🇳🇱 Zwarte gier ·Coragyps atratus
📍 Dutch Gap Conservation Area, Chester, VA, US
📍 Miami-Dade County, FL, USA
📍 Texas, US
📍 S Harborth Ave, Three Rivers, TX, US
📍 Barber Lake, Newtown Public Park, Newtown, OH 45244, USA
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © eduardovieira17 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © llsproat · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Ty Smith · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © BJ Stacey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Danny Martin · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 6. Dutch Gap Conservation Area, Chester, VA, US:© Ty Smith · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Miami-Dade County, FL, USA:© Cricket Raspet · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Texas, US:© Chris Bentley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. S Harborth Ave, Three Rivers, TX, US:© Cullen Hanks · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Barber Lake, Newtown Public Park, Newtown, OH 45244, USA:© David Tibbetts · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The black vulture ( Coragyps atratus ), also known as the American black vulture , is a bird in the New World vulture family whose range extends from the southeastern United States to Peru, Central Chile and Uruguay in South America. Although a common and widespread species, it has a somewhat more restricted distribution than its compatriot, the turkey vulture, which breeds well into Canada and south to Tierra del Fuego.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 135,547 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Matthäus Bechstein in 1793 (233 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Black Vulture
- Nederlands
- Zwarte gier
- scientific name
- Coragyps atratus
- class
- Aves
- order
- Cathartiformes
- family
- Cathartidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1
- sightings worldwide
- 135,547
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1793 by Johann Matthäus Bechstein
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Cathartidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 4765, Wikidata Q213366, GBIF 2481942, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.