black vulture

plural black vultures

1. An American vulture species, Coragyps atratus, with black plumage.

   In many Latin American towns, the Black Vulture is urbicolous, throwing in its lot with humans, taking advantage of slaughterhouses, garbage dumps, and fishing docks.

   2007, Amadeo M. Rea, Wings in the Desert: A Folk Ornithology of the Northern Pimans, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 101

   Synonyms: American black vulture, black buzzard

2. A north African and Eurasian vulture species, Aegypius monachus.

   Synonyms: Eurasian black vulture, monk vulture, cinereous vulture