Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture

Cathartes burrovianus Cassin, 1845

Cathartidae — New World Vultures

Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture, Cathartes burrovianus, is a New World vulture of Middle America and South America, breeding from eastern Mexico to northern Argentina. It was described by Cassin in 1845 and belongs to the family Cathartidae in the order Accipitriformes. It is tied to seasonally wet grassland, flooded lowlands, swamps and badly altered former forest. It is also called the savannah vulture. It was once treated as the same bird as the greater yellow-headed vulture, before the two were separated in 1964.

Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Cathartidae — New World Vultures
Breeding range: Middle America, South America: e Mexico to n Argentina