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Definition of black vulture in English: black vulturenoun 1A very large Old World vulture with blackish-brown plumage, now rare in Europe. Aygypius monachus, family Accipitridae Also called cinereous vulture Example sentencesExamples - Snow lay thin on the dunes, while a black vulture cruised above my head.
- We deal with everything from the smallest white-eye to a black vulture, from hedgehogs to jackals.
- The black stork, black vulture, and endangered Spanish imperial eagle are among the 42 species of birds that depend on the cork woodlands.
2A New World vulture with black plumage and a bare black head. Coragyps atratus, family Cathartidae Example sentencesExamples - The three vulture species in North America, the turkey vulture, black vulture, and California condor, are in the family cathartidae.
- Huge, black vultures soar over canyon, desert and forest, circling nimbly on updrafts.
- Unlike turkey vultures, which eat carcasses and rarely attack livestock, black vultures will go after piglets, sheep and cows as well as dead animals.
- I don't see any black vultures but I do see the better soaring turkey vultures and a number of hawks.
- We landed on a red-clay airstrip, where at least one symptom of human impact was manifest: dozens of black vultures circling over the town dump.
Definition of black vulture in US English: black vulturenoun 1A large, aggressive American vulture with black plumage and a short square tail. Coragyps atratus, family Cathartidae Also called carrion crow Example sentencesExamples - Unlike turkey vultures, which eat carcasses and rarely attack livestock, black vultures will go after piglets, sheep and cows as well as dead animals.
- I don't see any black vultures but I do see the better soaring turkey vultures and a number of hawks.
- Huge, black vultures soar over canyon, desert and forest, circling nimbly on updrafts.
- The three vulture species in North America, the turkey vulture, black vulture, and California condor, are in the family cathartidae.
- We landed on a red-clay airstrip, where at least one symptom of human impact was manifest: dozens of black vultures circling over the town dump.
2A very large Old World vulture with blackish-brown plumage, now rare in Europe. Aygypius monachus, family Accipitridae Also called cinereous vulture Example sentencesExamples - Snow lay thin on the dunes, while a black vulture cruised above my head.
- We deal with everything from the smallest white-eye to a black vulture, from hedgehogs to jackals.
- The black stork, black vulture, and endangered Spanish imperial eagle are among the 42 species of birds that depend on the cork woodlands.
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