page_title: List of birds of North America
section_title: New World vultures
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of North America / New World vultures
caption_attribution_description: English: Young California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) ready for flight.
context_page_description: The lists of birds in the light blue box below are divided by biological family. The lists are based on The AOS Check-list of North American Birds of the American Ornithological Society supplemented with checklists from Panama, Greenland, and Bermuda. It includes the birds of Greenland, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, Bermuda, and the Caribbean Islands.
context_section_description: Order: Cathartiformes   Family: Cathartidae
  The New World vultures are not closely related to Old World vultures, but superficially resemble them because of convergent evolution. Like the Old World vultures, they are scavengers. However, unlike Old World vultures, which find carcasses by sight, New World vultures have a good sense of smell with which they locate carcasses.
  California condor, Gymnogyps californianus CR E (and XN)
  King vulture, Sarcoramphus papa LC
  Black vulture, Coragyps atratus LC
  Turkey vulture, Cathartes aura LC
  Lesser yellow-headed vulture, Cathartes burrovianus LC
caption: The California condor is one of North America's most endangered birds.
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