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SpeciesAccipitriformesCathartidae
Birds

🦅Black Vulture

Coragyps atratus (Bechstein, 1793)

De zwarte gier (Coragyps atratus) is een roofvogel uit de familie van de gieren van de Nieuwe Wereld (Cathartidae). Deze soort is wijdverspreid over de beide Amerikaanse continenten. De zwarte gier wordt ook wel raafgier genoemd. In zijn leefgebied wordt hij onder andere zopilote negro, gallinazo, urubu of zoncho genoemd.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Videos
9
Photos
3
Measurements
12
vs you
≈ 1/33rd of your weight
Also called
American Black Vulture
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
1.88 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
26 years
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Black Vulture

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.88 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 2.27 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.18 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.41 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.06 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.08 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
26 years
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
35 days
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 2
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Omnivore
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Human Modified
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
1.9 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Black Vulture yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAccipitriformes
  5. ›familyCathartidae
  6. ›genusCoragyps
  7. ›speciesCoragyps atratus
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  3. familyCathartidae
  4. genusCoragyps
All 12 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  11. familyCathartidae
  12. genusCoragyps
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korpkondor (sv), Urubu-de-cabeça-preta (pt), kondor havranovitý (cs), Ravnegrib (da), Rabengeier (de), Urubu noir (fr) … and 25 more languages
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