New World vultures are more closely related to storks than
they are to Old World Vultures and other Falconiformes.
So New World vultures aren't really 'vultures'. What to do?
Let me resurrect a suggestion I saw a couple of years
ago on Birdchat (attribution? help me here!).
-- Let's call the New World vultures 'condors'.
As in 'Turkey Condor', 'Black Condor', 'King Condor', etc.
Yes/no?
Jim
Jim Felley
Smithsonian Institution
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