Vultures and Condors

Cathartidae

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Vultures and Condors are typically carrion feeding birds. The heads are usually naked and the claws are blunt, unlike the sharp talons of their relatives the hawks and eagles. Vultures and condors are large birds and are most commonly seen soaring in thermal updrafts in their search for food. There are 7 species of vultures and condors worldwide. Three species occur in North America, two in the eastern United States. The endangered California Condor is limited to California.