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Vol. 44 No. 4 (2013)

BEHAVIORS OF NESTLING AND JUVENILE BLACK VULTURES IN NORTHWESTERN MEXICO

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21199/WB44.4.7
Submitted
November 23, 2025
Published
October 1, 2013

Abstract

The Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) is a common carrion-eating bird in much of the Americas (Ogada et al. 2012). Studies in North, Central, and South America have described general behaviors such as nesting, bathing, and drinking (McHargue 1981, Stolen 2000, Sazima 2011). But there are few reports of the vocal sounds made by vultures (Blumstein 1990) and no published sonograms. Here we describe some characteristics of the nest of a Black Vulture in Mexico and publish the first sonograms of the vocalizations of two nestings and a juvenile.

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