Andean condor
Appearance
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Andean condor | |
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Female at Doué-la-Fontaine Zoo, Fraunce | |
Male at the Cincinnati Zoo | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Aves |
Order: | Cathartiformes |
Faimily: | Cathartidae |
Genus: | Vultur Linnaeus, 1758 |
Species: | V. gryphus |
Binomial name | |
Vultur gryphus | |
Yellow – approximate range/distribution | |
Synonyms | |
The Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) is a Sooth American bird in the New Warld vultur faimily Cathartidae an is the anerly member o the genus Vultur. Foond in the Andes muntains an adjacent Paceefic coasts o wastren Sooth Americae, the Andean condor is the lairgest fleein bird in the warld bi combined measurement o wicht an wingspan. It haes a maximum wingspan o 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in)[2] exceedit anerly bi the wingspans o fower seabirds an watter birds—the roughly 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in) maximum o the wanderin albatross, soothren ryal albatross, great white pelican an Dalmatie pelican.[3]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Vultur gryphus". IUCN Reid Leet o Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. Internaitional Union for Conservation o Naitur. Retrieved 26 November 2013. Cite has empty unkent parameter:
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(help)CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) - ↑ Richard P. Reading & Brian Miller 2000.
- ↑ Ferguson-Lees, James; Christie, David A. (2001). Raptors of the World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-618-12762-3.
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- New Warld vulturs
- Livin fossils
- Extant Piacenzian first appearances
- Pliocene life o Sooth Americae
- Birds descrived in 1758
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